The team describes its new system as a "visual Turing test," after the legendary computer scientist Alan Turing's test of the extent to which computers display human-like intelligence.

They call their test a visual Turing test, after the computer scientist Alan Turing’s test of whether a computer can display human-like intelligence.

You can think of the experiment, detailed in the new issue of Science, as a kind of visual Turing Test. The software and a human are shown a new character—something that looks like a letter, but ...