That one get your attention?! Thank Crystal-Wizard for this little dandy! The computer, posing as a 13 year old boy named Eugene Goostman managed to fool a group of researchers.
The test, named after computer pioneer Alan Turing, is fairly straight forward. To say that a computer program has passed the Turing Test, it needs to fool 30 percent of human judges in five-minute, text-based chats, something until now has never happened.
It should be noted though that a chat bot has now also passed by posing as a 13 year old boy with whom English is not a primary language.
So it is not AI going on here but some very clever library scripts and the like but still, there are huge implications.
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