"Maybe it is a human who is typing gibberish for X reason" is not a good objection to the idea of a turing test. A turing test is the only test that matters be

"Maybe it is a human who is typing gibberish for X reason" is not a good objection to the idea of a turing test. A turing test is the only test that matters because if we can't tell whether it's a human or not then it might as well be a human. Anyway, the idea that we have built human-level intelligence is silly. We have algorithms that can beat humans at tasks humans consider hard. That's quite an achievement but it's not what Vinge was talking about.