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by lostmsu 944 days ago
This was a severely constrained version with limited public record, so paint me skeptical.

For instance there was a 5 minute limit.

From the article:

    Simultaneous tests as specified by Alan Turing
    Each judge was involved in five parallel tests - so 10 conversations
    30 judges took part
    In total 300 conversations
    In each five minutes a judge was communicating with both a human and a machine
    Each of the five machines took part in 30 tests
    To ensure accuracy of results, Test was independently adjudicated by Professor John Barnden, University of Birmingham, formerly head of British AI Society
5 tests in 5 minutes that's just 1 minute each. In 1 minute it would be challenging to figure out you're not talking to ELIZA.