I think all it shows is that Turing's original suggestion of 30% success for 5 minutes with average interrogators was probably overoptimistic. Those particular stipulations were never, it seems to me, core to what Turing was saying, and the sample conversations in his article make it clear that even if he said "average" he was actually thinking of a rather higher standard of interrogation than "Eugene" got.
And of course the whole "13-year old immigrant who doesn't speak English very well" thing is rather a cheat. Here, I've got a program that passes the Turing test. It simulates a person who doesn't know how to use a computer keyboard.
I agree. Which is why we need better tests! http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/kc8/come_up_with_better_turing_tests/
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.