Turing states a very similar thing in his "Computing Machinery and Intelligence paper" and goes on to form a more interesting question (the Turing test):

"If the meaning of the words "machine" and "think" are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, "Can machines think?" is to be sought in a statistical survey such as a Gallup poll. But this is absurd. Instead of attempting such a definition I shall replace the question by another"