[randallsquared]

Aside from the fact that this has been tried and not yet worked (see Lenat's Cyc, for example), having to use the Turing Test as a measure of sapience is an artifact of having no idea what sapience is. If we knew (or, once we know) what algorithm produces consciousness, we can test for that directly, and it seems unlikely to me that a giant lookup table will have an internal experience of consciousness in the way that I do.