In the latest update in the machines-getting-smarter-to-hunt-humans chronicles, a computer has finally passed a test and tricked scientists into thinking it was real.

A computer AI called “Eugene”, which pretended to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, passed the Turing test, which is based on Alan Turing’s question-and-answer game, Can Machines Think?

The 65-year-old Turing Test is successfully passed if a computer is mistaken for a human more than 30% of the time during a series of five-minute keyboard conversations.

This is the first time an AI has officially succeeded in the test, which is being dubbed as “historic”. Surprisingly enough, it’s also the first time that we’re probably going to regret building something so clever.

That said, The Huffington Post has a skeptical and opposing article on Eugene’s “achievement”, saying that the test only proves something to be a smart-AI computing system, rather than imitating a human.

Either way, the human-race just need to build another, even more-clever robot to travel back in time from the future and save as all, before Eugene takes over.

[source: BBC]