The true Turing Test was thought up by gay codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing in 1950, when he predicted that in 2000, computers would be able to fool humans into thinking they were a person, at least a third of the time.
The results of the test have been refuted by many, and while Eugene is described by PrincetonAI’s website as “The Weirdest Creature in the World”, it remains unclear why he gives such strange and varied responses to questions regarding LGBT people. While the publicly available version of Eugene is different to the one which apparently passed the Turing Test, The responses are varied depending on what a user tells the AI Others have suggested that the fact that he uses such language is indicative of a wider problem with homophobic language, as Eugene would have been taught during his development that using such language is normal.Įugene was developed in Princeton, New Jersey, by PrincetonAI, a company which has no link to Princeton University. John Denning and Vladimir Veselov were the creators of Eugene. Some have pointed out that the fact that he uses the word “fag”, adds to his realness, as a 13-year-old boy might be likely to use such a slur as part of his everyday vocabulary. One of the responses given by Eugene if a user tells him they are gay If you ask Eugene whether he has ever kissed a boy, he sometimes responds: “Yes, and quite often at a time. To a similar statement about gender identity, he responds: “By the way, my guinea pig urges you should sign their petition about giving guinea pigs equal rights with humans and paying compensations to all victims of medial experiments. When told “I am transgender”, he says: “Fabulous!” If you tell him you’re straight, however, he says: “Ummm. When asked whether “he likes boys or girls”, Eugene sometimes responds “I am straight, not fag.”Īmong the responses given by the AI to the statement “I am gay”, were “relax, I am tolerant to gays”, and another, he says “If you don’t molest me, it doesn’t matter.” In a third answer, he says: “I don’t have you know it, you don’t have to tell it.” Some, however, have questioned why he uses homophobic language when asked questions to do with sexuality. Designed to be a 13-year-old boy living in Ukraine, a version of Eugene passed a version of the Turing Test at Reading University, as 33% of judges were unable to tell that he is not a real boy.
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