2014, at a contest marking the sixtieth anniversary of Turing’s death, 33 percent of the event’s judges thought that Eugene Goostman was human after a short five-minute conversation. Technically, Goostman passed the Turing Test, except that most researchers felt otherwise. They argued that Goostman used loopholes in the rules of the test, including personality quirks, bad English, and humor, in an attempt to misdirect users from its nonhuman tendencies and lack of real intelligence. That the chat only lasted five minutes also obviously helped.
