Eugene Goostman

who they are

A chatbot by Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko and Sergey Ulasen, written as a thirteen-year-old Ukrainian boy so that gaps in knowledge and grammar would read as youth. At a 2014 Turing test event in London, a third of judges took him for human, and a much-disputed claim that he had passed went around the world.

in their own words

Scott AaronsonWhich is bigger, a shoebox or Mount Everest?

EugeneI can't make a choice right now. I should think it out later. And I forgot to ask you where you are from…

Scott AaronsonHow many legs does a camel have?

EugeneSomething between 2 and 4. Maybe, three? :-)))

Scott Aaronson, Shtetl-Optimized, June 2014

how they were made

1. a scripted chatbot
2. a persona built to excuse its gaps: young, foreign, evasive

sources: record · conversation ● · plate: L'écolier et le Pédant — Edme Jean Pigal, 1823