From Wikipedia:
"The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's ability to demonstrate intelligence. Described by Alan Turing in the 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", it proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which try to appear human. All participants are placed in isolated locations. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. In order to test the machine's intelligence rather than its ability to render words into audio, the conversation is limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen."
When Turing devised this test he couldn't have seen a world in which tens of billions of instant messages and text messages are sent every single day. To use this test as a measure of intelligence seems to have become a bit outdated. Why? Well I have plenty of friends who I chat to over IM that simply would fail the Turing test. Does this mean they are not intelligent? No it simply means that they use IM poorly, their grammar is terrible and their use of IM shorthand is annoying.
Perhaps a better test, Turing2.0, if you will would involve paying attention, not using shorthand that I don't understand and perhaps knowing how to finish a conversation so I can get back to work. Now that would be intelligent.
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