Can a machine fool you into thinking it's human - and does that mean it's truly intelligent?

The answer

The Turing Test, originally called the 'imitation game,' challenges a machine to exhibit behavior indistinguishable from a human during a text conversation with a judge. Turing predicted that by the year 2000, machines would fool 30% of judges after five minutes of conversation. In 2014, a chatbot named Eugene Goostman claimed to pass this threshold at the Royal Society in London, though the result was widely disputed. The test has sparked decades of debate about whether mimicking human conversation truly constitutes intelligence.