Turing: Did he think he would fail his own test?

Here's an interesting paper on Turing and his famous Turing Test. 

According to the authors' analysis of Turing's original paper, elements of the paper deal with ethics, and encourage scientists to take a broader perspective on intelligence.  Turing actually uses computers in a very broad sense-including "biological" (i.e. human) and warns that failing what he called "the imitation game" may not actually prove something is not human, merely that it does not think or communicate like a human. In other words, it cannot "pass" for a "normal human".  This concept takes on greater  importance in the context of Turing's homosexuality, for which he was persecuted unto suicide.  It has also been theorized that Turing was mildly autistic, which in turn can give greater context to Turning's hypothesis of intelligent machines that cannot imitate humans.

The real legacy of Turing's paper may be its encouragement to think in terms of other conceptions of intelligence, and that imitation isn't everything.  For a person who died because he could not sufficiently imitate the mainstream, this is a chilling reminder of what may happen if we do have too limited a definition of "human".