I will say that Betty got that one absolutely right.
Update: As I was walking down the aisle in the grocery store, I realized that the Betty Everett of this, her greatest song, was someone for whom that human application of the Turning Test as applied to people failed, as well as the Shoop Shoop test. Only she was smart enough to admit that her judgement had failed in the face of deception and misjudgment.
If it were not my firm decision to not post the kinds of messages I've gotten over my critique of the Turing Test they'd make a great example of how atheists, materialists, sci-ranger and fan boys - none of whom, I suspect, could explain any of Alan Turing's ideas with any sophistication - become unhinged when you don't turn scientists into infallible gods.
Any gay man of the age of 39 in 1952 Britain or the United States who walked into a police station and complained about being ripped off by the man, twenty years younger, not legally an adult, then, who they had brought home to have sex with has to have been not thinking too clearly about what reaction they should have expected. At the very least. No gay man of Turing's age and that education and experience could have reasonably expected anything but that they would get arrested for breaking the law against gay sex with the most drastic ill effect being certain. Think of something as clueless as a bank robber leaving a note on something with their name and address on the other side for a close analogy. Only stupider.
Even geniuses can do incredibly stupid things and misjudge the thoughts of other people. Yet through such human wisdom we are supposed to be able to confirm the totally alien "intelligence" of machines.
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