It's looking more like "how can I tell if I'm talking to a machine unless the potential person on the other end is strapped into a torture chair and forced to r

It's looking more like "how can I tell if I'm talking to a machine unless the potential person on the other end is strapped into a torture chair and forced to respond rationally to my inane philosophical ramblings." And I'd like it more as a Gedankenexperiment if people weren't talking about it as a tool or metric. That kind of thinking gains momentum.