The thing is, the Turing test was a thought experiment; a bit of
a lark really. Machines have been passing the Turing test ever
the 1950s. In the 1960s. In the 1970s. In the 1980s. In the
1990s. In the 2000s. In the 2010s.
A computer that can effectively pass for a human? It's the "Oh
look, the horse can count with his hooves!" trick. The Turing
has been passed many many times. I wrote basic chat bot on my
Tandy Color Computer 2 in 1985 (not networked - you had to sit
at the computer ... which was hooked up to the TV set)... and it
worked just like the Chatterbot does today.
It learned from what people said based on certain nouns, verbs,
adjectives, adverbs, common things people would type.
I took a basic Eliza thing and modified it extensively during
the summer of my 8th grade. It wasn't hard and made a LOT of
people go OMG KEN WOW YOU'RE A GENIUS, as I blushed and did the
"aw shucks" routine.
It's easy to fool people. It's not a good test for intelligence
at all.
