To seem to me like a person, Watson would need more than intelligence, it would need, well... personality. Watson will answer questions put to it for as long a

To seem to me like a person, Watson would need more than intelligence, it would need, well... personality. Watson will answer questions put to it for as long as the power is on. But it will never do anything else. It has no other desires, no motives, no interests. Its planning skills are limited to game strategy. Its conversational skills are limited to preprogrammed social niceties which probably don't extend beyond the context of the game. You can make a decent case that it's intelligent --- but it's an intelligent machine. You'd have to add all of the above, and probably more, in order to get something that you could interact with even on-line as a person. [EDIT: I don't mean to deny the possibility of a machine that I would feel comfortable calling a person --- but I saw the Watson demo run, and I haven't seen one yet.]