PUBLISHED ON JUNE 14, 2014
PROVIDED BY CNNNEXT.COM
"A computer program has successfully managed to fool a bunch of researchers into thinking that it was a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Goostman.
In doing so, it has become the first in the world to have successfully passed the Turing Test.
The test is named after computer pioneer Alan Turing.
To pass it, a computer program needs to dupe 30 percent of human judges in five-minute, text-based chats, a feat that until now had never been accomplished.
"Eugene" was created by a team based in Russia, and passed the test organized by the University of Reading just barely, by duping one in three judges.
It should also be noted that a chatbot successfully pretending to be a 13-year-old boy for whom English is a second language ain't exactly Hal 9000.
There's no artificial intelligence at work here; it's more clever gamesmanship by Eugene's creators."
