Industrial Turing Test: concept and practice

Intelligence is an abstract topic and Turing test, as an external behavior detection method, provides a scientific method to test representational artificial intelligence. In this work, we briefly discuss the categories of artificial intelligence in nature. Then, according to the characteristics of the process industry, we propose a new Turing test paradigm that is suitable for process operation practice from the perspective of behaviorism and pragmatism, called Industrial Turing Test. We designed a digital twin system of air separation process using virtual distributed control system technology and dynamic process modeling theory. Furthermore, we implemented the digital twin system and the prototype of the industrial Turing test in the industrial gas industry. Industrial practice shows that the proposed industrial Turing test provides an approach to test the effectiveness of the process industrial digital twin system.