The test originated from the Imitation Game. Turing envisioned a game in which two people (A & B) are tasked to pretent to be the other (not at the same time, t

The test originated from the Imitation Game. Turing envisioned a game in which two people (A & B) are tasked to pretent to be the other (not at the same time, though). An interviewer is then trying to decide who of them is actually the one they pretend to be by asking questions. In order to remove any hints from appearance, voice, or handwriting, a typewriter is used for interacting. For example A could be male and B could be female and A is asked to pretend to be B. The interviewer can then ask questions to decide whether A is male or female (yes, I am fully aware that in 2020 this: https://youtu.be/z2_8cfVpXbo?t=129 https://youtu.be/z2_8cfVpXbo?t=129 could also happen). Turing then proposed to replace A or B with a computer instead and ask the interviewer to decide which of them is the human. In this scenario, do you really think the interviewer would bombard the candidates with trivia questions and logic puzzles to find out? The idea was, that other aspects of human intelligence, like a sense for beauty, poetry, etc. would be used instead to differentiate between the two. Questions like "Do you enjoy reading Harry Potter?" and depending on the answer you could further ask why or why not the subject likes or dislikes the books. This would be much more insightful and coming up with such questions doesn't require any particular skill on part of the interviewer. You can even get tricky and return to the topic after talking about something else to see whether you get a similar response or to test the subject's memory.