Are Home Health Aides The New Turing Test For AI?

AI is changing work but work will change AI too.Getty What does it mean for a machine to be intelligent? For decades, the common answer to that question has been to pass the "Turing test." This test, named after famed mathematician Alan Turing, says that if a machine can carry on a conversation with a human via a textual interface such that the human can not tell the difference between a human and machine, then the machine is intelligent.