The Turing Test and the Quest for Machines That Think

Elbot's first utterance is not to reply, but presumably a stock response triggered by the keywords Turing test. In the following line, the judge uses the word Spose which in that context can only mean suppose or as a typographical error. Elbot presumably interprets it as Spouse and responds with a stock joke about marriage. When the judge hopefully took up Elbot's randomly introduced theme of oil, Elbot ignored it. This is how much success the quest for machines that think had achieved in the 58 years following Turing's paper, nil.