The Turing test was conceived as a thought experiment to define the meaning of the question ‘can computers think’. This is obvious if one reads Turing’s original paper, and as a thought experiment to establish Turing’s point it works great. But I don’t really see how actually carrying out the Turing test as a real experiment is going to tell us anything about the state of an AI that wasn’t obvious anyway.
Still pointless.
Could you elaborate? Pointless with respect to which goals?
The Turing test was conceived as a thought experiment to define the meaning of the question ‘can computers think’. This is obvious if one reads Turing’s original paper, and as a thought experiment to establish Turing’s point it works great. But I don’t really see how actually carrying out the Turing test as a real experiment is going to tell us anything about the state of an AI that wasn’t obvious anyway.