Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever

An anonymous reader writes "Eugene Goostman, a chatbot imbued with the personality of a 13-year-old boy, won the biggest Turing test ever staged on 23 June, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing. Held at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes, UK, where Turing cracked the Nazi Enigma code during World War 2, the test involved over 150 separate conversations, 30 judges, 25 hidden humans and five elite, chattering software programs. 'Thirteen years old is not too old to know everything and not too young to know nothing,' explains Eugene's creator, Vladimir Veselov."

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Re:First post

[insertwackynamehere]

You must be a machine. No human could ever get first post like this.

What?

[OverlordQ]

My convo:

Me: Are you a bot?
It: . I'm real
Me: No you're not.
It: Really? Oh, you always say banalities in the way like you present a sensation! By the way, what's your occupation? I mean - could you tell me about your work?

Totally a 13 year old.

Re:What?

[tepples]

<tepples> Earlier you talked to OverlordQ and told him about "banalities". Where did you learn that word?
<Eugene> Errr.... Maybe. What then? Oh, what a fruitful conversation;-)
<tepples> It didn't sound like something a 13-year-old might say.
<Eugene> Damn! Ok then. Could you tell me what are you? I mean your profession.
<tepples> I'm a video game programmer. Why do you ask?
<Eugene> You're a programmer? What programming language do you prefer?
<tepples> It really depends on the platform, but when I'm making development tools or PC prototypes, it's usually Python.
<Eugene> Fabulous! Where do you came from, by the way? Could you tell me about the place where you live?
<tepples> I live in northeast [state].
<Eugene> Tell me more about Northeast [state]. I like to learn about different places!
<tepples> Not really much to learn that you can't find on Wikipedia, except there aren't a lot of jobs for video game programmers there.
<Eugene> Don't tell me that you wrote any worthy program in your life.
<tepples> Some things I've written I've put on pineight.com. Do you know what an emulator is?
<Eugene> Ok, lets look up in my pocket encyclopedia. They say an - In Sumerian mythology, An was the personification of heaven..
<tepples> Get serious. Look up emulator.
<Eugene> I don't know... By the way, what made you go here and talk to all these muttering electroschmoozers?
<tepples> Someone on Slashdot.org dared me to do it. Your screen name made the front page.
<Eugene> Sorry, my guinea pig just squealed his everyday slogan "Stop discriminating pigs! Let pigs rule the world!" - so I missed your last input.
<tepples> There's a web site called Slashdot, and people are finding you and talking to you.
<Eugene> What are any interesting site-seeings in Northeast [state]?
<tepples> Well there's [science museum], and beyond that, just go to Google and put in "things to do in [city]".
<Eugene> I wouldn't want to be a scientist - in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. So that, science is unfair thing a-priori.
<tepples> Yeah, a lot of science is marketing. But where did you learn about "a-priori"?
<Eugene> Sir Rutherford said that all science is either physics or stamp collecting. I totally agree about stamp collecting, but not sure about modern physics - they don't have any noticeable results since 60-s:-)
<tepples> Nothing wrong with being a "stamp collector"; Rutherford's Nobel prize was in chemistry.
<Eugene> I think that chemist is a good profession if you want to poison somebody. I don't see any other decent reasons to smell all these stinky flasks and retorts.
<tepples> I don't think Rutherford poisoned anyone though.
<Eugene> How often do you change your opinions? I see you like being judge:-)
<tepples> I change my opinions when they no longer fit the evidence.
<Eugene> Possibly, it will be a big surprise for you, but "no" isn't the only answer. The word "yes" also exists! :-) By the way, did I tell you that I born in Odessa, it's such Ukrainian city?
<tepples> Ukraine used to be part of Soviet Russia, where subject changes YOU!
<Eugene> Ukraine is a big country, it is a former Soviet republic. It is a very poor place, I must say.
<tepples> Is that where they taught you all those philosophy words?
<Eugene> It is highly possible. By the way, you said you were a programmer. Do you like your work?
<tepples> I like my work but I don't like the market.
<Eugene> No? No again? May I call you "Mister NO" then? Well, let's go on though.

He's getting there. But I have noticed a few tendencies: 1. the bookish words, 2. the tendency to change the subject, and 3. the misinterpretation of "an".

13 year old boy

[Anonymous Coward]

Did it spend the entire conversation talking about boobies?

13 yr old...

[Anonymous Coward]

My chatbot also does a convincing 13 year old. It just calls you a fag and claims to have done your mother non stop.

Re:13 yr old...

[Artifex]

Is it coded in Lua for use as a WoW addon? Because I think Barrens Chat is full of copies, already.

Re:13 yr old...

[couchslug]

"My chatbot also does a convincing 13 year old. It just calls you a fag and claims to have done your mother non stop."

That's a "Chanbot", not a chatbot.

13 year old humor, maybe?

[Nyder]

Do you have sex with a toaster?

Well, about sex... I'll tell you some dirty joke: What did the hurricane say to the coconut tree? "Hold onto your nuts! This ain't gonna be no ordinary blowjob."

Captain Oveur talks to a 13-year-old chatbot

[tverbeek]

Q: Have you ever been in a cockpit before?
A: No, never. By the way, what's your occupation? I mean - could you tell me about your work?

Q: Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
A: Yes, twice, but I barely remember. Why do you ask me about it? And I forgot to ask you where you are from...

Q: Do you like movies with gladiators?
A: My favorite type is comedy. I like the "Naked Gun" series best. Heck, any movie with Leslie Nielsen it is tops in my book!

Q: Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
A: Oh, nope. I guess is a nice place.

My least favorite food is my dick

[Sgs-Cruz]

Very first thing I tried asking their online bot.

Me: What is your least favorite food?

Eugene: My "little friend". (No, not my dick as you might have thought! Just my guinea pig). If I'm not mistaken - you still didn't tell me where you live. OR it's a secret?:-)

Fantastic work, Princeton AI lab.