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This is a good thing.

We really really Really should Not define as our success function for AI (our future-overlords?) the ability of computers to deceive humans about what they are.

The Turing Test was a clever twist on (avoiding) defining intelligence 80 years ago.

Going forward, valuing it should be discarded post-haste by any serious researcher or engineer or message-board-philosopher, if not for ethical reasons then for not-promoting spam/slop reasons.





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