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Turing explicitly designed it to account for this EXACT concern. From the "Turing Test" Wikipedia:

> ...the question has become "Can machines do what we (as thinking entities) can do?" In other words, Turing is no longer asking whether a machine can "think"; he is asking whether a machine can act indistinguishably from the way a thinker acts. This question avoids the difficult philosophical problem of pre-defining the verb "to think" and focuses instead on the performance capacities that being able to think makes possible, and how a causal system can generate them.

The whole point of the test is that we'll NEVER build a machine that we think is "intelligent" or "thinking", because those words mean about as much as "love" or "meaning" in a scientific or engineering context.

Maybe the fact that we've built computers that pass the test means that we're close to AGI? Worth reexamining some priors :)