Stuart Anderson: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/super-computer-first-to-pass-tu... --software emulates a 13 year old Ukrainian boy named Eugene Goostman, supposedly convinced 33% of judges he was human. Did not say how many judges interviewed him, but at most 30. I tried clicking the "try Goostman yourself" link at the bottom of the page, leading to http://www.princetonai.com/bot/ and/or http://www.princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp and/or http://default-environment-sdqm3mrmp4.elasticbeanstalk.com/bot/ and the result was nothing, all three just hung. It was unclear from the story whether the judges spoke Ukrainian, or whether Goostman supposedly semi-knew English, or what. Somewhat more illuminating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Goostman http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/computer-becomes-fi... I'm pretty sure a goodly number of the judges (maybe all) did not speak Ukrainian. Wikipedia also mentions some previous examples of "passing Turing tests" such as 2011 where Cleverbot tricked 59% of judges and 1991 where "PC Therapist" tricked 5 out of 10 judges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleverbot You can converse with cleverbot here: http://www.cleverbot.com/ I typed: Which is more important, death or a yellow clay brick? The answer came back: Truth. For confirmation I tried: Which is larger, a star or the statue of liberty? Answer: They are both about the same size. Game over... total elapsed time, about 15 seconds. I don't care what the newspapers say, I'm not going to believe any computer can fool me for 5 minutes until I actually experience it. Also it says Google has technology that can solve "CAPTCHA" so-called turing tests (image recognition for disguised alphanumeric characters) and also that blind people are infuriated at CAPTCHA anyhow since they have to rely on automated screen-reading software which is blocked by that.