In 2001, in Saint Petersburg, three programmers, Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko, and Sergey Ulasen, developed perhaps the first chatbot to have a claim to passing the Turing Test. Their creation pretended to be a thirteen-year-old boy from Ukraine named Eugene Goostman. He liked to discuss his pet guinea pig, his father, who was a gynecologist, and his love for racing games. He made jokes, asked questions, and sometimes flubbed his grammar. The chatbot was portrayed as a thirteen-year-old boy for a savvy reason, as the developers wanted to create a character with a believable personality
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