I wrote a while back about how generations of AI researchers viewing the Turing test as a holy grail led to our current predicament, in which chatbots hyper-optimized to mimic human interaction actually do fool people into thinking they're sentient. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/17/google-ai-lamda-turing-test/
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"If a machine could consistently fool the interviewer into believing it was the human..."
Yeah. That hasn't happened yet. And it speaks more to human gullibility than the intelligence of the chat bit when it does. I have yet to see one that doesn't immediately fall apart, mainly due to a stubborn insistence on refusing to say "I don't know".
