Eugene has actually been around for many years, since 2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebner_Prize), and at that time he convinced one of 12 judges in a parallel test. One of the judges found him more human than an actual human conversation partner.
People keep saying the test is bad, but I feel the standards are very high already. You have to fool a human judge who is on the lookout for a bot. Based on the news articles, it’s not clear if Eugene competed against a human partner in side-by-side conversations, but since they’re so insistent about the “true” Turing test I’d guess he did. The ability to fool an unsuspecting judge has been around since AIM bots.
Eugene has actually been around for many years, since 2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebner_Prize), and at that time he convinced one of 12 judges in a parallel test. One of the judges found him more human than an actual human conversation partner.
People keep saying the test is bad, but I feel the standards are very high already. You have to fool a human judge who is on the lookout for a bot. Based on the news articles, it’s not clear if Eugene competed against a human partner in side-by-side conversations, but since they’re so insistent about the “true” Turing test I’d guess he did. The ability to fool an unsuspecting judge has been around since AIM bots.