It's giving me a 404. I think you mean this article? Edit: nice article. The Imitation Game seems to me like something a descendant of IBM's Watson could solve. It is indeed much more interesting to have an AI lie convincingly about characteristics it doesn't have. I don't think it has to be a gender thing specifically - that was chosen by Turing because it's part of his world. I think a test like this could be just as interesting if he had to pretend to be someone with a disability, or an illness of some sort.
Dammit, fixed. Thanks. The whole subject is interesting to me because the way Turing set it up, it wasn't about "if you can do this, you're self aware" it was "if you can do this, you're a great imitator and intelligence has nothing to do with it." One of these days I'll read the whole thing.