The economy could get a boost if machine learning engineers switched from copying human abilities to augmenting them. But now some AI thinkers wonder whether we’ve succeeded a little too well—at the wrong task.

Clive Thompson for WIRED, exploring Erik Brynjolfsson’s argument that the Turing Test and copying humans was the wrong goal, it should have been about augmentation all along. 

In 1950, Alan Turing famously created what’s now known as the Turing Test, a way of deciding whether a computer is intelligent. If the computer could converse so fluently that it passed as a human? Presto: That’s artificial intelligence.