[TuringTest]

Turing didn't have the advantage of working instances of chat bots to learn how easy it is to simulate trivial small talk.

But with all the flaws of the thought experiment that is the original test, he had the core insight that sustaining a coherent conversation requires non-trivial introspection. When the talking can evolve in any direction, even questioning about the conversation itself, you need to maintain a mental state capable of analyzing the thoughts expressed by yourself and your interlocutor, and having a mental model about this internal though process is an important property of what we call consciousness.

Unfortunately, the lore of how we handle the Turing test seems to have been distorted by our experience with early chat bots, and these core properties have been lost in favor of nuances and curiosities about the ingenuity of automatically generated responses.