[6SJ7]

I wonder if Obama could pass the Touring Test... I mean, without using a teleprompter.

[BuckeyeTexan]

The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to demonstrate intelligence. It proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which tries to appear human. All participants are placed in solated locations. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. In order to test the machine's intelligence rather than its ability to render words into audio, the conversation is limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen. only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen.

"Tries to appear human" - that's appropriate, huh?