Eh.. The Turing test (Turing was a man, and the Turing test is a concept posed by him) is restricted in the way that it is to eliminate irrelevant factors such

Eh.. The Turing test (Turing was a man, and the Turing test is a concept posed by him) is restricted in the way that it is to eliminate irrelevant factors such as robotics. The concept itself that is presented is quite sound: If you cannot tell that it's not intelligent, how can you say that it is not? I cannot think of a better test. The only weak point as I see it does not say anything one way or the other about intelligence that is fundamentally different from our own (for example: doesn't happen to use natural language).