Of course the "news" is bunk, but I don't see that this LW post deserves all the downvotes it's evidently received. Halo/horns effect in action?
(I would be more certain that the post doesn't deserve the downvotes if Suart had put quotation marks around "passed" in its title.)
It passed Turing's original criteria. I don't see how I can't consider that a genuine pass, however we feel about the methods used.
The chatterbot "Eugene Goostman" has apparently passed the Turing test:
As I kind of predicted, the program passed the Turing test, but does not seem to have any trace of general intelligence. Is this a kind of weak p-zombie?
EDIT: The fact it was a publicity stunt, the fact that the judges were pretty terrible, does not change the fact that Turing's criteria were met. We now know that these criteria were insufficient, but that's because machines like this were able to meet them.