But Time writer Doug Aamoth published an interview with Eugene Goostman on 9 June. And transcripts of this year’s Turing Test are not yet available. The developers have reportedly made an instantiation of Eugene Goostman available online, but the surge in traffic following the Turing Test 2014 announcement seems to have crashed the server. This year’s 33-percent score was enough to pass. That was the top mark of the year, but not quite enough to be declared (almost) a real, live boy. Eugene Goostman hit 29 percent in Turing Test 2012, the previous competition. Each of the five competing AIs participated in 30 conversations. Eugene Goostman persuaded 10 judges that he was the human participant in 33 percent of the 30 conversations in which he participated. The competition called for a judge to conduct a series of five-minute conversations in real time with two “people,” one of whom was carbon-based and the other, digital. Going forward we plan to make Eugene smarter and continue working on improving what we refer to as 'conversation logic.'" This year we improved the 'dialog controller' which makes the conversation far more human-like when compared to programs that just answer questions. We spent a lot of time developing a character with a believable personality. “Our main idea,” said Veselov after the win, “was that he can claim that he knows anything, but his age also makes it perfectly reasonable that he doesn't know everything.
According to Eugene’s Wikipedia page, he hails from Odessa, is the son of a gynecologist, and owns a pet guinea pig.Īs impressive as the technology is, the developers’ ability to craft a backstory that makes the machine’s responses credible is the real key. The test is simple: converse so naturally that human interlocutors think they are talking to another person.Įugene Goostman started a-life in Saint Petersburg, as a project of Vladimir Veselov (whose LinkedIn page indicates that his day job is engineering software for Amazon), Eugene Demchenko, and Sergey Ulasen. The program, whose development started in 2001-so he is really 13 years old-beat competitors by scoring 33 percent in Turing Test 2014, an event held at the Royal Society in London and organized by the University of Reading.Įugene (or “Zhenya,” as he told one judge he likes to be called) thus became the first in that competition to meet the criteria of the “imitation game” for artificial intelligence, suggested by cybernetics pioneer Alan Turing in 1950.
Eugene Goostman, a chatbot masquerading as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy (with a notably short attention span), finally passed his exams.
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