From the first comment on the blog post: >While I'm at it though, I'd like to point out that I don't think the "Turing test" is meant to be an actual test at a

From the first comment on the blog post: >While I'm at it though, I'd like to point out that I don't think the "Turing test" is meant to be an actual test at all. To me, the point of the Turing test is as a philosophical proposition: if, when the communication interface is limited to a bidirection terminal, the other end is indistinguishable from a human, then we could conclude that the other end is intelligent. Since each response is simply an iterated (i.e. stateful) function of the previous response, it follows that intelligent machines are possible. It doesn't tell us anything about how to create the function, though.