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If Alan Turing were still around, what would he have thought of 13-year-old Eugene Goostman? Turing, widely considered the father of computer science, became famous for cracking the Nazi's Enigma machine, and his Turing Test has become the de facto method for determining a machine's artificial intelligence. But recent news from the largest Turing test in history suggests even Turing himself might have been fooled by the seemingly normal teenage Goostman.
To many attendees, Eugene was just a typical seventh-grader from a middle-class family, awkward with peculiar sense of humor. It was that distinctive personality that led to Eugene winning the top prize at the Turing 100 event, after 29% of respondents mistook the artificial chat bot for a real person. A machine passes the Turing Test if it can trick 30% of the humans it interacts with into thinking it too is human.
Do you think you would have been fooled by Eugene? Tell what you think of the faux-teenage machine in the comments.