I feel like if any program does nearly that well, the judges aren't cheating enough. They should be picking things they know the computer is bad at. Like drawing something with ascii art, and asking what it is, or having it talk to a bot and seeing if the conversation goes anywhere.
If all you do is talk, then all it shows is that the computer is good at running a conversation. Maybe that just was never something that took a lot of intelligence in the first place.
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.