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Fooling humans seems a pretty trivial thing to me.

Develop a program to analyse the posts and responses of bigfooty posters.

It then posts and responds in the same way the poster would do. We ARE that predictable. That is self evident.

Strangers regularly posting in the same places on the same subjects in a text format has dragged the challenge of the turing test back to the completely possible imo. Unknowingly responding to a machine, thinking its a human posting, would be nothing unusual today, we accept this premise so much.

In turings day, the mere communication via a keyboard or whatever would be strange. Now its so commonplace if such a machine were perfected, the machine could perform untold masquerades and scams. In fact it wouldnt need to. Not having a fixed lifetime it could just gain funds and influence just by patiently waiting a few decades