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If humans can't recognize intelligence, then we won't be able come up with some other test to recognize intelligence.

Agreed. But we'd have to agree on what standard of intelligence we're considering. Turing is only one standard. And I would say not a very high one if being compared to human intelligence.

Eh.. The Turing test (Turing was a man, and the Turing test is a concept posed by him) is restricted in the way that it is to eliminate irrelevant factors such as robotics.

The concept itself that is presented is quite sound: If you cannot tell that it's not intelligent, how can you say that it is not?

I cannot think of a better test. The only weak point as I see it does not say anything one way or the other about intelligence that is fundamentally different from our own (for example: doesn't happen to use natural language).

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