>As far as I'm concerned, the Turing test was claimed 8 years ago by Veselov and Demchenko [0], incidentally the same year that we got Ex Machina.

Duping the judge by pretending to be a young foreign non-native speaker in order to explain away various shortcomings was surely not the intent of the Turing test.

By that standard the Turing test could have been passed in 1951 by a computer program that doesn't respond at all--just tell the judge the person he's corresponding with is in a coma.