The Future of the Turing Test? College Admissions

Back in 1950, computer scientist, codebreaker, and war hero Alan Turing introduced the world to a very simple premise: If a robot can engage in a text-based conversation with a person and fool that person into believing it is human at least 30 percent of the time, surely we could agree that the robot is a "thinking" machine. Turing's goal was to force people to think more creatively about computer interaction, but he inadvertently ended up creating the test that robot intelligence developers and commentators have relied on for years. They're focused on more substantive metrics. Fundamentally, the problem with the Turing Test is that it's poorly defined therefore facilitates hype (i.e. that fake teaching assistant in Georgia) rather than offering easily duplicated results. Beyond that, one can argue that it measures human weakness, not artificial strength.