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“Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.”
― Ian McDonald, River of Gods

“We could try the Turin test," said Lobsang.
"Oh, machines have been able to pass the Turing test for years."
"No, the Turin test. We both pray for an hour, and see if God can tell the difference.”
― Stephen Baxter, The Long War

“Long before you were born a man decided that there could be a very simple test to determine if a machine was intelligent. Not only intelligent, but aware, possessed of a psychology. The test had only one question. Can a machine converse with a human with enough facility that the human could not tell that she was talking to a machine? I always thought this was cruel--the test depends entirely upon a human judge and human feelings, whether the machine feels intelligent to the observer. It privileges the observer, the human, to a crippling degree. It seeks only believably human responses. It wants perfect mimicry, not a new thing. It's a mirror in which men wish only to see themselves.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Silently and Very Fast

“The Turing Test was invented in 1950 by British mathematician Alan Turing, one of the fathers of the computer age. Turing was also a gay man in a period when homosexuality was illegal in Britain. In 1952 he was convicted of committing homosexual acts and forced to undergo chemical castration. Two years later he committed suicide. The Turing Test is simply a replication of a mundane test every gay man had to undergo in the 1950s Britain: can you pass for a straight man? Turing knew from personal experience that it didn't matter who you really were - it mattered only what others thought of you. According to Turing, in the future computers would be just like gay men in the 1950s. It won't matter whether computers will actually be conscious or not. It will matter only what people think about it.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“A sea change. A transformative change. The sister arts no longer reflecting the natural bent of shared rules but giving way to a chaos of art forms. An expression of a newfound freedom, indication of a cognitive shift.

General intelligence took over from hard-wired proclivity. It was a change of mental place, a shift in where problem solving was done, whether in making a work of art or coming up with a scientific explanation. That shift in mental activity is what we call modernism. Artists used a different part of the brain to create art.

Modernism and post-Newtonian science were both part and parcel of the same thing: the brain relinquishing natural proclivities for the products of general intelligence.

Art interpretation as the ultimate Turing test.”
― Samuel Jay Keyser, The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

“With Bayesian networks, we had taught machines to think in shades of grey, and this was an important step toward humanlike thinking. But we still couldn't teach machines to understand causes and effects. We couldn't explain to a computer why turning the dial of a barometer won't cause rain.... Without the ability to envision alternate realities and contrast them with the currently existing reality, a machine...cannot answer the most basic question that makes us human: "Why?”
― Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

“The Turing Test â€� the sort of thing that only a demented empiricist could devise â€� is one of the silliest tests ever to be taken seriously as a test. It’s equivalent to saying, “If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duckâ€� â€� even though we know it’s actually a machine-duck with no organic parts, which we have painstakingly programmed to exhibit duck behavior â€� to quack like a duck.”
― David Sinclair, The Lost Superpowers of Ancient Humanity: In Search of the Prometheans

“Any [AI] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.”
― Ian McDonald, River of Gods