You can say the test was imperfectly designed, but pointless? No. The point of the test was to provide an objective measuring stick by which we might define th

You can say the test was imperfectly designed, but pointless? No. The point of the test was to provide an objective measuring stick by which we might define the moment of arrival of machine thinking. As Turing observed, a question like “Can machines think” is painfully subjective and thus is a poor measuring stick. Hence the need for the test.