You can call me AI: Turing Test beaten for first time

A computer application named "Eugene Goostman" has convinced a third of judges sitting at a Turing Test that it was a human being.This is the first time that a machine passes that test, which was devised by Alan Turing, computing genius and better known as a second world war codebreaker working at Bletchley Park.The event took place at the Royal Society in central London on Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of his death.Almost human?It is the first time a computer managed to fool more than the required 30% of human interrogators over a series of five-minute keyboard conversations.Four other computers were part of the competition as well. The successful device was put together by Vladimir Veselov and Eugene Demchenko. Although there have been a number of similar claims in the past, they had access to a database of questions or topics prior to the conversations.Why Alan Turing is the father of computer science

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