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IT Scientists are celebrating today after a computer convinced researchers it was a 13-year old boy called Eugene Goostman by answering every question "u r so lame" for twenty full minutes.
"This is a major breakthrough in information technology ", said Doctor Clark Morris at the Royal Society in London. "The Turing test demands a computer convince a person that it is a real human through interaction, and constructing an algorithm which could repeatedly headshot you in Call of Duty whilst shouting 'Gay N00b' at the same time was a major technical challenge."
"It was the breakthrough in spawn-point camping which we think tipped us over the edge into true artificial intelligence."
Staff at the Royal Society asked ‘Eugene’ a series of questions designed to catch out a computer programme, but were convinced he was human when he responded with surly monosyllables, unconvincing boasts about girls and a series of unrepeatable comments about TV historian Mary Beard.
When asked why it was decided to replicate a 13-year old boy, Doctor Morris replied it was the "easiest option". "For example", he said. "If the questioner is a seventeen year old girl with large breasts, the programme simply doesn't reply to any questions at all. It just maintains an embarrassed silence before tweeting about how it got off with her.
"To be honest, that bit of code pretty much wrote itself", he added.
When asked what he felt after passing the test Eugene replied "your mum".
"This is a major breakthrough in information technology ", said Doctor Clark Morris at the Royal Society in London. "The Turing test demands a computer convince a person that it is a real human through interaction, and constructing an algorithm which could repeatedly headshot you in Call of Duty whilst shouting 'Gay N00b' at the same time was a major technical challenge."
"It was the breakthrough in spawn-point camping which we think tipped us over the edge into true artificial intelligence."
Staff at the Royal Society asked ‘Eugene’ a series of questions designed to catch out a computer programme, but were convinced he was human when he responded with surly monosyllables, unconvincing boasts about girls and a series of unrepeatable comments about TV historian Mary Beard.
When asked why it was decided to replicate a 13-year old boy, Doctor Morris replied it was the "easiest option". "For example", he said. "If the questioner is a seventeen year old girl with large breasts, the programme simply doesn't reply to any questions at all. It just maintains an embarrassed silence before tweeting about how it got off with her.
"To be honest, that bit of code pretty much wrote itself", he added.
When asked what he felt after passing the test Eugene replied "your mum".
