Hi Jerry!
Welcome!
Yep… such a fools errand, that such a AI has
passed on the turing test.
AI is an attempt to mimic its results.
If you can’t discern AI from human, is that AI truly alive?
An interesting question somewhat explored in the movie
Ex-Machina.
:uhmm: actually that is NOT what the researchers into AI want to do. Yes imitation was the choice made by Alan Turing back in the 60’s when computer technology was in it’s infancy.
Since you used wikipedia here is what TODAY goal for AI is:
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is also the name of the academic field of study which studies how to create computers and computer software that are capable of intelligent behavior. Major AI researchers and textbooks define this field as “the study and design of intelligent agents”,[1] in which an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success.[2] John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955,[3] defines it as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”.[4]
Now by that standard I am afraid the “Turing Test” is wholly unacceptable since the premise is extremely subjective. From the Turing article you quoted:
Turing’s new question is: “Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the imitation game?”[5]
As you see current computers can pass that test with flying colours, IF you dumb down, who is asking the questions to the computer and provide it (the computer) with access to a large enough database of knowledge.
The real test of intelligence comes when the machine needs to generate a response for which there is NO directly indexable and therefore searchable solution.
In other words the computer needs to make a decision by itself and NOT choose a pre-cooked and pre-digested answer.
For what is fact we have is a parrot not an intelligent
BEING.
Notice the word “being”, something GOD answered to Moses when he asked what GOD name was. And GOD answered “I AM WHO I AM”. Or as our current theological understanding of GOD is, GOD is BEING itself, a non contingent entity.
Notice that Turing original question was discarded a priory since he knew that no machinery can do that.
Alan Turing in his 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” while working at The University of Manchester (Turing, 1950; p. 460).[3] It opens with the words: “I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’” Because “thinking” is difficult to define
Only a human being can exhibit rational thinking.
Many animals have the ability to mimic human behaviour.
Some can produce sounds and even words learned from their human companions.
Others can mimic other human behaviours again by learning (memorizing) them from their human companions.
All can replay the learned pattern when the conditioning prompts them to do so.
However none can produce a coherent AND independent thought.
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We could create a facsimile that looks like human intelligence but does NOT equate to the soul.
That was inspired! 
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