@raymaccarthy @nonfedimemes I myself believe that the Turing Test has at least limited practical utility. I decided to conduct such a test on the Twitter "Grok" thingummy a while back: I resolved on having a conversation or discussion with Grok as if they were any other interlocutor on the web, on a particular topic on which Grok was likely to be well-informed: the Millikan oil-drop experiment, which is well recorded.
It was fairly easy to tell, with enough conversation on the topic, that Grok did not have any genuine understanding of it.