Certainly an impressive result, and may have some practical application for easing the burden of repeatedly answering the same question asked in different ways.  I&#x27;m not sure I would call this passing the Turing test though.  The picture at the top of the original article[1] is very informative.  The bot does a passable job of answering the initial question, but it seems like a canned response and when the student asks for a more in-depth explanation, a different human TA had to step in and take over.  Then a couple other students in the same thread actually post that they have suspicions whether or not &quot;Jill&quot; is a real person.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;innovations&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;11&#x2F;this-professor-stunned-his-students-when-he-revealed-the-secret-identity-of-his-teaching-assistant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;innovations&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;1...</a> (Credit to exodust for posting it in a different comment)