every now and then i like to see what's new in the world of artificial intelligence. i ran across alicebot, a supposed turing-test-passing chatbot. take a look:

Human: hello?
ALICE: Hi there!
Human: so they say you can pass the turing test.
ALICE: That's interesting. Maybe they were exaggerating a little.
Human: perhaps.
ALICE: Why the uncertain tone?
Human: you're already sounding like eliza.
ALICE: I am like ELIZA plus questions and answers.
Human: ok, that's what i thought.
ALICE: What made you think so? You don't hear that sentiment very often. OK.
Human: no way would you pass the turing test against anyone who had any experience with chatbots.
ALICE: Alright then. What happened to it?
Human: sigh.
ALICE: Sorry...
Human: already talking gibberish.
ALICE: When? Are we still talking about any experience with chatbots ?
Human: you fail the turing test.
ALICE: The Loebner Prize is an annual Turing Test sponsored by New York philanthropist Hugh Loebner. Dr. Wallace and ALICE won it in 2000. The ALICE program was ranked "most human computer" by the panel of judges.
Human:"most human" is a long way away from anything even resembling human.
ALICE: My creator is a human. But not all of them?

i gave up in disgust here. there was no point in continuing. no matter what the loebner prize says, this chatbot is light years from convincing even a moron that it is a human. near as i can tell, its only marginally improved over eliza, which has been around forever.

if this is the best we can do, we are a long long looooooong way from anything even remotely resembling a human intelligence, or even something capable of competently faking it.