Eugene Goostman is a chatbot who has passed the Turing test, the fist program to successfully ace an exam intended to measure machine intelligence. Goostman is a computer program from Russia. The chatbot tricked 33% of a panel of judges into believing he was a real boy during the course of a five-minute chat conversation.

Computer pioneer Alan Turing developed the Turing test in 1950; it was designed to be rudimentary way of determining whether or not a computer counts as “intelligent.”

According to the The Guardian, the test is carried out in a sort of imitation game. On one side of a computer screen sits a human judge, whose job is to chat to some mysterious interlocutors on the other side, the British newspaper described. Majority of the interlocutors are humans, but one will be a chatbot. The latter is created for the sole purpose of tricking the judge into thinking that it is the real human.

On Sunday for the first time in history, a machine succeeded in its goal of pretending to be a live human being.

Time says that the milestone conveniently occurred 60 years to the day after Alan Turing passed away; Turing predicted that by the year 2000, computers would be intelligent enough to trick humans into making it believe they were real 30% of the time.

Eugene Goostman, the Russian program acting as a fake 13-year-old boy from Odessa, Ukraine, makes for semi-convincing chatbot. The answers from the program are at times enthusiastic and unintelligible, Time notes, similar from any normal 13-year-old.

Below is a 2012 conversation, published by the Guardian, with a judge that led to Eugene being picked over the human interlocutor.

[16:11:25] Judge: what music do you like?

[16:11:32] Eugene: I like Eminem – because he doesn't have a thing to do with "polite-correctness".

[16:11:46] Judge: OMG i love eminem, he's my favourite artist!

[16:12:00] Eugene: I wonder what Eminem's nick mean. I associate it only with a word "enema". But he is a cool guy, I like his "The Real Slim Shady".

[16:12:55] Judge: i know what his nick name means, his real name is Marshall Mathers. From the initials M&M phynetically sounding like Eminem.

[16:13:06] Eugene: Eminem is a famous crapper. No, raper... ripper... Yeah, I mean - rapper. I like his "Stan" and "The Real Slim Shady".

[16:13:32] Judge: I like "Hailies song"

[16:13:46] Eugene: Interesting tastes. I like science fiction books, by the way. Where do you came from, by the way? Could you tell me about the place where you live?

[16:14:22] Judge: Epsom, home of the derby. yourself?

[16:14:27] Eugene: My guinea pig says that name Derby sounds very nice.

[16:14:41] Judge: i shopuld talk with him sometime

[16:14:48] Eugene: I think you should take some typing lessons. Or just type more accurately.

[16:15:04] Judge: that's very rude?

[16:15:09] Eugene: Ummm... Frankly, I didn't get your question:-(

[16:15:49] Judge: "Ummm" isnt a word. i think you need typing lessons

[16:15:58] Eugene: My thoughts are same. By the way, I still don't know your specialty - or, possibly, I've missed it?

The Guardian notes that at that time Eugene passed 28% of such conversations. Two years later, the extra 5% has made history.