Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-07-19]:
The first computer to pass the Turing Test, persuading the people with who it talked that it is one of their kind. [1, 2] Computers have started thinking as men, some people might say. Men have started thinking like computers, I say. And it is so sad...
PS. And yes, I find my self repeating my self once more. I have written that a long long time ago. [see here] In the era of Google Knol...
PS2. Read this for some serious objections to the "feat". (which by the way was not even the first - no one must believe the Internet any more) How intelligent is a program programmed to be stupid (a 13-years old who does not know good English and thus avoids the questions)?
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