The Turing Test was devised as a challenge to both human observers and programmers of computers. Basically, it requires that an observer converse with a respondent via a computer keyboard. The observer's job is simply to ask questions that the respondent answers. At the end of the conversation the observer is required to decide whether the respondent is a computer or a human.
Humans tend to be very possessive about intelligence.
Some argue that you have to program a computer, i.e. , tell it what to do, whereas you don't need to program people.