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There are no specific questions defining a Turing test. It's just generally "can the average person tell the difference between this bot and a real person?" It doesn't go any deeper than that.
It's also not actually some kind of "definitive" test of consciousness, the way it's depicted in pop culture. Literally someone just asked Turing what a good way to test for machine consciousness might be, and this was the first thing that came to mind. It does not have any particular scientific significance. It just makes for splashy headlines because it's a thing a lot of people have heard of.
It's not a test for artificial consciousness, you can't test consciousness at all. It's a test for humanlike AI.
Turing may not have specified it, but the only way such a test is at all meaningful is if the person administering it has some expertise. There have been computers that can sometimes fool the average person who doesn't know what to look for since the 1960s.
It appears technologists strategy is to simply lower the average…