"Eugene" passes the Turing Test.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Named after Alan Turing, the computer must fool 30% of human judges in five minute, text based conversations to pass the test. This has never been done until now. 

 

The test was organised by the University of Reading (I live in Reading, yay). It only just passed by fooling one of three judges. This is the part that makes me want to just disregard it completely. If they only used 3 judges, then this test was completely pointless and the sample used is not representative whatsoever. 

 

"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"

 

Although the validity of the results are questionable, it's still a pretty big jump, as the test has never been passed before. 

 

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EDIT: REPOST

[BonBon Scott]

I feel like a larger sample should have been used.

[Vitalius]

This means jack-diddly about anything. 

First of all, you can pass any "intelligence exam" if you pretend to have no intelligence. A 13 year old Ukranian boy talking to anyone who isn't from the Ukraine pretty much means he can respond with the same answer to any question and get by with it. "I'm too young to know what you are talking about." "We don't have that here."

I could've written a program to fool someone with this premise and I don't know how to code in any language.

This isn't really that different from Eliza. 

[MetEishYa]

Mega Reposted:

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/163709-eugene-goostman-the-first-program-to-pass-the-turing-test/

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/163873-super-computer-passes-turing-test/

[Oshino Shinobu]

I feel like a larger sample should have been used.

Yeah, that's what sort of makes it less of a big deal. Then again, it could be badly worded, as I can't find anywhere specifically that it says only 3 judges were used.