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“There are prevalent reports of computers passing the Turing test, although these tests do not meet the criteria established by knowledgeable observers.”
Inventor and futurist, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
Said 1999Deadline Dec 31, 2019The Age of Spiritual Machines (Viking, 1999), Chapter 10 ('2019'); summarized in Wikipedia's article on The Law of Accelerating Returns
Widely publicized claims of machines passing the Turing test did appear well before 2019 — most prominently the 'Eugene Goostman' chatbot in 2014 — and in each case AI researchers rejected the test conditions as failing serious criteria, exactly the pattern Kurzweil described.