turing tests and chatterbots

see "From Russia, with Love," Sci. Am. Mind, Oct/Nov. 2007 @16, by Robert Epstein, co-editor of the [upcoming] book Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer. As [not] seen in my twitterstream. Do you follow me?

Epstein, an AI researcher & expert on the Turing Test, got fooled by a chatterbot for 4 months.