In the wake of large language models, there has been a resurgence of claims and questions about the Turing test and its value for AI, which are reminiscent of decades of practical "Turing" tests. If AI were quantum physics, by now several "Schr\"odinger's" cats could have been killed. Better late than never, it is time for a historical reconstruction of Turing's beautiful thought experiment. In this paper I present a wealth of evidence, including new archival sources, give original answers to several open questions about Turing's 1950 paper, and address the core question of the value of Turing's test.

翻译：在大语言模型兴起之际，关于图灵测试及其对人工智能价值的讨论与质疑再度涌现，这与数十年来实践中的"图灵"测试如出一辙。若人工智能是量子物理学，恐怕已有数只"薛定谔的猫"命丧黄泉。亡羊补牢未为晚矣，此刻正应对图灵美妙的思想实验进行历史性重构。本文呈现大量证据，包括新发现的档案资料，就图灵1950年论文中若干悬而未决的问题提出原创性解答，并直面图灵测试价值的核心议题。