George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Just like the Turing test, where judges try to determine whether they are chatting with the human or computer, the Blackbeard test challenges judges to determine whether they are chatting with a human or a pirate.
Scientists stuffed George into a box, and he passed notes through a slot.
George did his best to be convincing, but at the end of the experiment, the judges thought that the box with the computer in it was a real pirate.
The captain hired the computer and left George in the box.