A software has passed the Turing Test by fooling a third of judges in a panel that they talked to a 13-year-old boy. Cyborg Prof. Kevin Warwick has claimed that a machine has been able to pass the test for the first time since the set up of the test in 1950s.

The software, dubbed as Eugene Goostman, ran on some unspecified supercomputer at the Royal Society in London on Saturday. It was part of a competition organized by the University of Reading to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Alan Turing's death.

The test saw human judges holding 300 five-minute text-based conversations in English with strangers who were either a person sitting in another room or the chat software Eugene. The judges had to decide at the end of the conversation whether he or she talked to a human or a computer. Eugene Goostman emerged as the winner of the completion as it fooled 33% of judges in the panel by making them think that they talked to a 13-year-old boy.

Vladimir Veselov, who was born in Russia and now lives in the US, and Ukrainian-born Eugene Demchenko, led a team to develop Eugene. Veselov said in a statement that their whole team is ecstatic with the result of the competition as their hard work has finally paid off.

“Eugene was born in 2001. Our main idea was that he can claim that he knows anything, but his age also makes it perfectly reasonable that he doesn't know everything. We spent a lot of time developing a character with a believable personality”, said Veselov.

The dialogue controller was improved to a big extent this year. As a result, the conversation was made very similar to human like compared to other programs that just answer questions.