Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever

An anonymous reader writes "Eugene Goostman, a chatbot imbued with the personality of a 13-year-old boy, won the biggest Turing test ever staged on 23 June, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing. Held at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes, UK, where Turing cracked the Nazi Enigma code during World War 2, the test involved over 150 separate conversations, 30 judges, 25 hidden humans and five elite, chattering software programs. 'Thirteen years old is not too old to know everything and not too young to know nothing,' explains Eugene's creator, Vladimir Veselov."

Re:Spell check

[Anonymous Coward]

To be more clear, your quotidian 13 year old kids don't use words like "banalities". It is a rare kid that would even know the word when reading. It is a really rare kid that would use it in a conversation.

Re:What?

[arth1]

Q: Pro is to con as progress is to ?
A: Sorry, I don't know much about Con.

Bzzzt.

I can't believe this fooled 29 percent of people. How dumb are they?

Eugene: Very amusing! You believe this fooled 29 percent of human-beings how dumb are they! I do not even know what to tell you on that!

My answer: There is no limit to how stupid people are. When a computer passes a Turing test, it won't be because computers have become smarter, but because humans have become idiots who can't find their arse with a map, because they can't even read a map.

Re:What?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds suspiciously like tech support at Dell