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The idea with Turing machine is that anything a Turing machine can do, a computer can also do. It is a mathematical construct representing a computer. He used it to prove that some problems can’t be solved with computation alone (halting problem is one of these), thus proving there’s fundamental limitations to computing.
Turing test is mostly an interesting thought experiment. Don’t read too much into it.
well I am a computer science student and AI is quite trending subsection of CS so I wanna be really educated so that I don't get fooled by tech bros
Pay attention to your professors, then. I guess they're about to teach you what a Turing machine is. And what "AI" is, though from my experience, that term isn't thrown around in CS nearly as much. It's kind of a buzzword, and intelligence is ill-defined... Instead you'd get a lecture on machine learning, or deep learning or whatever. And you'll get a headache from all the maths and statistics required to do machine learning. It's not all that hard. But it can get involved. There's also a fascinating history to learn. "AI" didn't always mean ChatGPT.