Perhaps “Can machines produce art that passes as human?” is the wrong kind of question. The testing context makes Turing's challenge feel adversarial—as though the programmer (let's not forget that deep down an actual person or group of people wrote the program) has prepared to engage in a battle of wits with the human. But a more useful and interesting framing might be one of collaboration, which is arguably closer to the conversational dynamic.
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