> The Turing Test may well NOT be the crux of the matter.
>
I think it IS the crux of the matter because it's the holy grail of all AI
engineers (the strong, not the weak variants thereof). They think
semblence of soul passes for soul itself. I don't agree. And I think
it's the fallacy at the heart of the Kasparov press coverage. I would say
that giving human responses doesn't qualify you as a human because they're
just that - responses. But I think the Turing Test is the perfect
embodiment of this type of thinking.
So where is it we disagree?