{"id":11532,"date":"2014-06-09T22:10:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T05:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11532"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:07:12","slug":"computer-allegedly-passes-turing-test-for-first-time-by-convincing-judges-it-is-a-13-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/computer-allegedly-passes-turing-test-for-first-time-by-convincing-judges-it-is-a-13-year-old-boy","title":{"rendered":"Computer allegedly passes Turing Test for first time by convincing judges it is a 13-year-old boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a class=\"author fn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/users\/dantedorazio\">Dante D\u2019Orazio \u2014 The Verge<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph0\" class=\"pgh-paragraph\">Eugene Goostman seems like a typical 13-year-old Ukrainian boy \u2014 at least, that\u2019s what a third of judges at a Turing Test competition this Saturday thought. Goostman says that he likes hamburgers and candy and that his father is a gynecologist, but it\u2019s all a lie. This boy is a program created by computer engineers led by Russian Vladimir Veselov and Ukrainian Eugene Demchenko.<\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph1\" class=\"pgh-paragraph\">That a third of judges were convinced that Goostman was a human is significant \u2014 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 \u201cCan machines think?\u201d and is a well-known staple of artificial intelligence studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pgh-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/6\/8\/5790936\/computer-passes-turing-test-for-first-time-by-convincing-judges-it-is\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dante D\u2019Orazio \u2014 The Verge Eugene Goostman seems like a typical 13-year-old Ukrainian boy \u2014 at least, that\u2019s what a third of judges at a Turing Test competition this Saturday thought. Goostman says that he likes hamburgers and candy and that his father is a gynecologist, but it\u2019s all a lie. This boy is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64967,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions\/64967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}