Computer pioneer Alan Turing’s remarks in 1950 on the question, “Can machines think?” were misquoted, misinterpreted and morphed into the so-called “Turing Test”. The modern version says if you can’t tell the difference between communicating with a machine and a human, the machine is intelligent. What Turing actually said was that by the year 2000 people would be using words like “thinking” and “intelligent” to describe computers, because interacting with them would be so similar to interacting with people. Computer scientists do not sit down and say alrighty, let’s put this new software to the Turing Test - by Grabthar’s Hammer, it passed! We’ve achieved Artificial Intelligence!
John Searle is a troll. He’s been wrong about which part of the computer does what, and has never listened when anyone explains the central fuckup. Literally nobody thinks we’re gonna teach a CPU to speak English. Software is what works, and the software he posits is a book. The book speaks English. If it speaks English at a level you can’t tell apart from a human, either that’s a sentient system, or humans aren’t.