Siri and the turing test

[iancampbell]

A bit obvious but worth mentioning: A notional sapient AI which "wanted" to pass the Turing test would actually need to massively degrade its apparent capabilities for answering some of the possible questions. For example, if the question was something like "please factorise this 56-digit number into its two component primes" a human would take weeks (at least!) to answer the question, whereas a computer-based AI could do the job in a couple of seconds. (I think!)