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Artificial 'boy' first to fool one in three humans

Eugene Goostman, a program that 'thinks' it is a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, fooled 33 percent of human interrogators into thinking it was human, becoming the…

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Cleverbot has competition. No conversation algorithm or program has ever fooled enough humans to be considered artificially intelligent until this week, according to the Independent.

Meet Eugene Goostman, the first man-made program to pass the Turing Test requiring it to convince 33 percent of human interrogators that it is more than a computer program — that it is human.

The Turing Test requires that the program fool at least one in three human interrogators after five-minute conversations. But the breakthrough with the Russian-developed Goostman has elicited mixed reactions. Some have argued that the technology could be used in more devious ways than simply developing an impressive conversation partner, such as efficient computer hackers.

What does Goostman 'think' of the Turing Test? You can ask a version of it here. When asked for this article, Goostman responded with facts about Alan Turning, creator of the test. When probed further for its thoughts, Goostman called the questions "stupid" and asked to be invited to the United States with a smiley emoticon. 

After all, Goostman is posing as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy.