@szakib @tony @xgranade Right, there was a bit of hyperbole, and obviously Turing never set out to create the Make-or-break test that people made out of his thought experiment.

But the fundamental idea that the easiest proxy for judging whether sentience had occurred, was through human perception (basically what Searle eventually set out to discredit), is very much something he pushed. And it wasn't completely stupid, just inadvertently sent the world down a very fraught path.