Would Turing Have Passed the Turing Test?

On June 7, 2014, a Turing-Test competition, organized by the University of Reading to mark the 60th anniversary of Alan Turing's death, was won by a Russian chatterbot pretending to be a Russian teenage boy named Eugene Goostman, which was able to convince one-third of the judges that it was human. The media was abuzz, claiming a machine has finally been able to pass the Turing Test. The test was proposed by Turing in his 1950 paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," in which he considered the question, "Can machines think?" In order to avoid the philosophical conundrum of having to define "think," Turing proposed an "Imitation Game," in which a machine, communicating with a human interrogator via a "teleprinter," attempts to convince the interrogator that it (the machine) is human. Turing predicted that by the year 2000 it would be possible to fool an average interrogator with probability of at least 30%.