The headline from a breaking story at Gizmodo is: “A Computer Program Has Passed the Turing Test For the First Time” (http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-first-computer-in-history-to-have-passed-th-1587780232)
I thought the test had been passed last century when the program for a computer, written by Feng-hsiung Hsu, had Garry Kasparov, the human world champion, singing the deep blues. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJarxpYyoFI)
Mr. Hsu is the Rodney Dangerfield of computer programing in that he is only mentioned in the Wiki article “Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_versus_Garry_Kasparov) under “Further reading.” There one finds, “Hsu, Feng-hsiung (2002). Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-09065-3.” This is a very good book.
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Armchair Warrior 
“However the computers themselves play few draws against each other, and show a degree of human-appreciable inventiveness that Alan Turing could only have dreamed about, unless he had lived to see 85 let alone 100.”-IM Ken Regan
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/chess-knightmare-and-turings-dream/