If you would like to talk to the first computer capable of 'thinking,' you can chat with Eugene here. Developer Veselov explained that, ' Our main idea was that he can claim that he knows anything, but his age also makes it perfectly reasonable that he doesn't know everything.' So if the judges asked him something he was not programmed to know, judges might write that off as a factor of his age instead of his lack of humanity. Goostman's age was crucial to passing the Turing Test.

Professor Kevin Warwick, a visiting educator at the University of Reading, explained that this version of the test was actually quite vigorous: 'T he words Turing Test have been applied to similar competitions around the world this event involved the most simultaneous comparison tests than ever before, was independently verified and, crucially, the conversations were unrestricted.'

The Turing Test has been a point of contention among researchers, and some argue that it is not a valid way to determine if computers can think. (See? The two counties can get along if they try.) Goostman told the judges that he likes to eat hamburgers and candy, and that his dad works as a gynecologist. Gootsman was created by a team of computer engineers, led by Russian Vladimir Veselov and Ukrainian Eugene Demchenko. Saturday's computer, which acted as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy named Eugene Goostman, made the cut. In 2012, a program nearly passed with 29 percent of judges convinced, but just barely missed the cut.

As long as one-third of judges believe its human, the machine passes the test. The judges then determine if they believe they have been speaking to a machine or a human. It's meant to simulate a conversation with a complete stranger. The questions are a free-for-all - no script is applied and there are no topics assigned in advance. The University of Reading test was a five-minute keyboard conversation with someone or something on the other side.

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