Interview with Eugene Goostman, the Fake Kid Who Passed the Turing Test
Chatbot Eugene Goostman supposedly passed the legendary Turing Test on Sunday, tricking 33% of a panel of judges into believing he was a real boy during the course of a five-minute chat conversation. The milestone conveniently occurred 60 years to the day after Alan Turing passed away; Turing bet that by the year 2000, computers would be intelligent enough to trick humans into thinking they were real 30% of the time. As you may or may not notice below, passing the Turing Test is less about building machines intelligent enough to convince humans they're real and more about building programs that can anticipate certain questions from humans in order to pre-form and return semi-intelligible answers. In that spirit, Eugene Goostman -- the fake 13-year-old from Odessa, Ukraine who doesn't speak English all that well – makes for a semi-convincing chatbot. His answers are at times enthusiastic and unintelligible like those from any normal 13-year-old would be; add in a shaky grasp of English, and there you go.