Eugene Goostman
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Eugene Goostman is a software program. Initially developed in 2001, by a team of seven people in Princeton, New Jersey, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Kiev, Ukraine, Goostman portrays a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy—a persona that contains many biographical elements of the developers. Goostman's age was set in accordance with guidelines for readability that suggest adhering to a seventh-grade reading level for materials produced for general audiences.
Goostman was entered in a number of Turing Tests since its creation, and finished second in the 2005 and 2008 Loebner Prize. In June 2012, at an event marking what would have been the 100th birthday of the test's namesake, Alan Turing, Goostman received the highest score in what was promoted as the largest-ever Turing Test, during which it successfully convinced 29% of its judges that it was human.
On 7 June 2014, at a contest marking the 60th anniversary of Turing's death, 33% of the event's judges identified Goostman as human; the event's organizer Kevin Warwick considered it to have passed the Turing Test as a result, per Turing's prediction in his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, that by the year 2000, machines would be capable of fooling 30% of human judges after five minutes of questioning.
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