In 1950, Alan Turing created a test that he called the imitation game. In this test, he proposed that we could evaluate whether a machine was thinking simply by asking it and a human counterpart questions. If an observer could not distinguish between which answers were given by the machine and which were given by the human, the machine passes the test and can be considered a thinking machine. This test is now commonly known as the Turing test and is passed regularly by a variety of chatbots. artonomous also regularly passes an artistic version of the Turing test. While it is not testing whether or not machines can think, the robot is questioning whether machines can be creative. This portrait of Alan Turing was painted by artonomous using more than two dozen creative algorithms and 17,032 individual brushstrokes. Can you tell the difference between it's creativity and that of a human artist?
