I don't think the Turing Test is a very good test at all. It's trivial by having the robot pretend to be stupid, a child, or not a native-speaker. When you hear

I don't think the Turing Test is a very good test at all. It's trivial by having the robot pretend to be stupid, a child, or not a native-speaker. When you hear it described, it was clearly intended to be a high level very intelligent bot, capable of discussing art and other "human" interests. As you note here, the game described by Turing sets a very high bar. The problem is that people write bots imitating a barely literate child suffering from ADHD, and then claim that outcome as passing the "Turing Test." Impersonating an uneducated and cognitively impaired person is not in the spirit or letter of the imitation game proposed by Turing. The example dialogs that Turing wrote exhibit a high level of verbal fluency, specific factual knowledge, and context awareness: https://courses.edx.org/asset-v1:MITx+24.09x+3T2015+type@asset+block/5_turing_computing_machinery_and_intelligence.pdf https://courses.edx.org/asset-v1:MITx+24.09x+3T2015+type@ass...