"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.

It's still an obviously exciting breakthrough, though, one that has critics already raising red flags about its implications. "Having a computer that can trick a human into thinking that someone, or even something, is a person we trust is a wake-up call to cyber crime," said Kevin Warwick, a visiting professor at the University of Reading and deputy vice-chancellor for research at Coventry University told the Independent.

Rusty Shackleford
Yesterday 1:25pm

Nah sorry this is really a debased version of the Turing test. The speaker was a 13 yeard boy from a foreign country. This excuses bad grammar and, as mentioned in the article, wild inaccurate claims. Hey I have a program that can also pass the Turing test. His name is Arnold and he is totally crazy so he just spouts of nonsense. But hey, his nonsense is indistinguishable from that of a completely insane human!! Award please!

Pas mal de commentaires vont dans le même sens, d'ailleurs :

(...) boy from a foreign country. This excuses bad grammar and, as mentioned in the article, wild inaccurate claims. (...) His name is Arnold and he is totally crazy so he just spouts of nonsense.