"Whether or not you caught wind of the excited announcement that 'Eugene Goostman,' a computer program ('chatbot') devised by Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko and Sergey Ulasen, had passed the Turing Test this past week, there's a good chance you've noticed the widespread public denunciations of the claims."

"So noted a champion of artificial intelligence (AI) as Ray Kurzweil dismisses the assertion (and will not, presumably, pay out the money he has promised to the first team to actually pass the test). Gary Marcus, writing in the The New Yorker, is similarly critical."