A lot of its value is that it's intuitively obvious to laypeople.
If you deal in modern machine learning/AI/whatever, you can formulate all sorts of criteria and parameters for an "actually intelligent machine", but it's never going to be as clearcut as "if it quacks like a duck".
If you deal in modern machine learning/AI/whatever, you can formulate all sorts of criteria and parameters for an "actually intelligent machine", but it's never going to be as clearcut as "if it quacks like a duck".