I don't think specific problems are the issue. Even assembling furniture given instructions is not too difficult to ask a machine to solve, given the right prog

I don't think specific problems are the issue. Even assembling furniture given instructions is not too difficult to ask a machine to solve, given the right programming language. It's the jump from one specific problem to another, without a heuristic used to leap between problem types. That would be a machine learning the ability to generalize and infer like a human. The Turing test is simple because it is easy to add complexity to something that is simple. As a human, I can convince myself that an idiot is a genius and a genius is an idiot because of introspection. Humans have imagination, and we very often don't see how that warps our perception of intelligence. We still think we can be the distant, disconnected, scientific, observer - carefully constructing a pristine and universally objective technology. But computers, out of all kinds of technology, show us how much of our humanity goes into our creations.