Some collected criticism.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/n...he-turing-test
Quote:
Pretending to be a 13-year-old non-native English speaker is technically within the rules of the test, but it’s not what Turing had in mind.
One of Eugene’s creators said: “Eugene was ‘born’ in 2001. Our main idea was that he can claim that he knows anything, but his age also makes it perfectly reasonable that he doesn’t know everything.”
Turing was fairly obviously talking about a general ability to impersonate a human, not the (much easier) ability to impersonate a specific person with a highly limited communication ability and very few shared cultural reference points with the judges.
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