It’s Time to Ditch the Turing Test

Why the most famous test for Artificial Intelligence just doesn’t work

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In the film Ex Machina, tech mogul Nathan Bateman (played by Oscar Isaac) invites his employee Caleb (Domhall Gleeson) to his remote compound so that Caleb can perform a Turing test on Ava, a robotic AI that Nathan designed.