[rad88]

Turing's tests involved 3 parties, and that was a key part of the test. If you design it as an acceptance test rather than a sort, real people are going to fail and computers are going to pass, with embarrassing results. To use one of your examples, the job of the interrogator is not to decide whether someone has been to Spain, it's to decide which of 2 people has been to Spain.

Turing didn't just consider whether a computer could embody complex psycho-social identities (eg womanhood, intelligence, self), but first had to give this question some objective quantifiable meaning, by blinding the experiment and introducing a control group. It's not perfect, but at least it grounds the questions in a concrete framework, and acknowledges that most of the categories in question are only revealed by social dynamics. The only update to it I would make, based on modern developments, would be to consider more the performance of the interrogator, rather than the two competing subjects.