I think that while the Turing test is good for testing whether computer programs are humanlike, but it might not be the best for testing intelligence. Because intelligence is so subjective, it is hard to accurately test whether something or someone is intelligence merely by asking them typed questions. For example, a simple calculator can solve mathematical problems, but a person sitting at their computer may not. Also, because people are so different, it is hard to judge whether they are intelligent from typing questions to them. The adult phone sex programs can memorize names, ages and such, and they can fire back provocative answers and pass as a shallow human, but I don’t think this makes them intelligent. Even people sometimes forget names and ages, and some people may not even be capable of talking dirty back, so the Turing test might not be able to fully test something or someone for intelligence. In class we mentioned that there was a program that mimicked a paranoid person, and while the program can produce responses that fit its character, to some people it would be obvious that it was a program, while to others it wouldn’t. Because both intelligence and the Turing test are subjective it is hard to say whether the test itself is really a good test. A person unfamiliar with technology is much more likely to be fooled by a chatbot than a computer scientist would be. The bots in games like Counterstrike are also more likely to be spotted by an intense gamer than a mom who has never played before. Bots may be able to spout off different insults, but actual humans often come up with strange insults that don’t actually include obscenity or profanity. Even simple automated responses programmed for business hotlines may fool people who don’t have experience with them. For example, if a grandma who has never even heard of automated responses called Visa today, she would be greeted by a human voice, then prompted to say yes or no in response to the human voice asking which category her problem fell under. The voice recognition technology might be able to convince her that she was talking to a human, but to most people today, it might not be able to. This applies to programs tested with the Testing test. No matter how advanced computer programs become, there will always be a handful of people educated in that field who can recognize the programs using the Turing Test, and there will always be people who can be fooled. Because the results from the Turing test vary from person to person, and program to program, I think the Turing test is not good test of intelligence, but it is not the worst either.