18 Mind-Blowing Facts About Blade Runner

The Voight-Kampff test issued to subjects to determine whether or not they are a replicant is actually based on a real-life test designed by British computer scientist, founding father of artificial intelligence and preeminent code-breaker Alan Turing in 1950 to determine a computer’s ability to demonstrate a level of intelligence equivalent to us human folk.

Now known as the Turing test but dubbed ‘The Imitation Game’ by the man himself, it was a fairly simple idea involving an interrogator determining the true human subject from a computer and a man through a series of questions.

Blade Runner’s version pried a little deeper, however, with probing questions about tortoise murder, boiled dog entrees and softcore porn.