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.
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.