Eliza does pass the Turing test in the original form proposed by Turing. There are many examples of people mistaking Eliza for a real person. Turing doesn't spe

Eliza does pass the Turing test in the original form proposed by Turing. There are many examples of people mistaking Eliza for a real person. Turing doesn't specify competition or specific training required for the 'tester'. It's pretty clear that people are projecting on Turing's (trivial and ill considered) thought experiment far more complexity and rigour than originally present in the form Turing suggests for his test. But that's beside the point. To reiterate, the central problem here is that intelligence, reflexivity, intentionality etc are not being assessed. Merely as Turing himself phrased it 'imitation'. This is all well and good if you view consciousness as epiphenomenal. But all that is being tested is our ability to be fooled into thinking our creations real, which is as old as storytelling.