Eugene Goostman seems like a typical 13-year-old Ukrainian boy — at least, thats what a third of judges at a Turing Test competition this Saturday thought. This boy is a program created by computer engineers led by Russian Vladimir Veselov and Ukrainian Eugene Demchenko. That a third of judges were convinced that Goostman was a human is significant — at least 30 percent of judges must be swayed for a computer to pass the famous Turing Test. The test, created by legendary computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, was designed to answer the question Can machines think? and is a well-known staple of artificial intelligence studies.
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