Eyespying - seeing as it appears that MLM participants need to pass this fabled Turin Test - I thought it prudent to do some research on it as many here have stated - you need to do the research on the company you are dealing with etc.. many successful MLM people have and not regretted it - I asked a number of them today how many had taken the Turin Test. Not one of these "participants" answered positively with having taken the test - in fact all questioned me as to if there was an actual requirement to take said test in order to run their business effectively.
What interesting points I found out about the test you can find here :-
people.csail.mit.edu/katrina/papers/6893.pdf
A good article by Katrina LaCurtis from MIT
Now to the takeaways:-
About the test:-
2 The Turing Test
Before discussing any criticisms of the TT, let me first describe the test itself. In [18], Alan Turing put forth his “Imitation Game” as a means to sidestep the question of “Can machines think?” by giving AI a more precise goal. In this game, a human interrogator converses with two separate entities in locked rooms: a human and a machine. The interrogator’s goal is to determine which entity is the machine while the machine and the human both try to convince the interrogator that
they are human.1 Turing believed that the goal of AI should be to create machines that can pass this test, i.e., that are linguistically indistinguishable from humans.
Interestingly......
5 The Turing Test Is Not a Necessary Test for Intelligence
In contrast to the previous section, the next criticism falls under the umbrella of the TT being too difficult. Many philosophers (Moor [12], e.g.) believe that it is a failing of the TT that it is not a necessary condition for intelligence. I could easily dismiss this criticism by pointing out that Turing himself did not intend for the TT to be a necessary condition: “[The objection that the TT is not a necessary condition for intelligence] is a very strong one, but at least we can say that if, nevertheless, a machine can be constructed to play the imitation game satisfactorily, we need not be troubled by this objection.”
However, dismissing the argument in this way would only leave me to address criticisms that the TT was not even a sufficient test for intelligence, all of which were dealt with in the previous section.2 Accepting the TT as merely a sufficient test for intelligence also diminishes the test a bit, as one could simply excuse any mistakes it makes by saying “well, it is only a sufficient test.”
As a result, in subsequent sections, I will argue that the TT might in fact be a necessary test for intelligence—in the sense that it indeed tests for general intelligence, and that language captures general intelligence—but that regardless of whether it is, the TT is still worth pursuing.
I will get back to you on further info on the test as I am finding it slightly fascinating... what it has to do with MLM - I really don't know - but that Turing guy was an interesting character!
BTW - TT is Turing Test