As much as I admire Turing (I've often wondered what our world would be like if he hadn't died as young as he did), I've never been that convinced of the value of the Turing Test.

Given a choice between

1) software that can carry on a convincing conversation about sports, politics, music, movies, current events, etc. and

2) software that is obviously an AI that can do medical diagnosis and treatment planning better than 90% of human doctors,

and I'll take number 2 in a heartbeat.

In the future an AI that can do both will probably be developed, but right now I genuinely believe more effort should be spent on solving problem #2.