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Turing Test Competition At CalTech

Posted by timothy on from the move-near-a-major-target-first dept.

Charles Dodgeson writes "The Turing Tournament at Cal Tech wants to know if you can program an emulator that will play games like a human, or if can you write detector that can correctly sort the wetware from the software. Before you get too excited, the "games" are very limited things. But there is a $10,000 prize for the winner. You can read the gory details."

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  1. Programs to play games and programs to catch them by JHandey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Exactly how not needed do we want to make actual people?

  2. Translation, please. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would someone please translate this to something than can be parsed by non-math types?

    1. Re:Translation, please. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Just wait til you get to step 3...

      3.) PROFIT!!!

  3. Re:Programs to play games and programs to catch th by Jason1729 · · Score: 2, Funny

    We're just trying give the humans more time to play tetris

    Jason
    ProfQuotes

  4. It's not hard to write a "gamer emulator" by JessLeah · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just make it run around shooting stuff and saying things like "lol u camping fagot!!!!" ;)

    Oh, and "my new vidcadr r0x ur world".

    --
    Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
    1. Re:It's not hard to write a "gamer emulator" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Learn to spell, mormon!!!

  5. Play like a human? by gpinzone · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...if you can program an emulator that will play games like a human...

    What? You mean make a bot to miss every shot using the railgun in Quake 3? I think I can whip up some AI for ya!

    1. Re:Play like a human? by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 3, Funny

      You'd also have to make it whine convincingly about lag, bitch about camping, and insult people's mothers.

    2. Re:Play like a human? by heby · · Score: 2, Funny

      i guess "you're so smart that you'd fail the turing test" will be the next big insult then?

  6. First Entry by shoemakc · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The Turing Tournament is a two sided tournament designed to find, on the one hand, the best computer programs to mimic human behavior"

    humanator2()
    {
    while (sex=="false")
    for (0:ii:4294967296) {
    if (ii mod 100!=0) {
    call dwnld_porn(kiddie);
    else
    call mstrbte();
    end;
    ii++;
    }
    }

    Note the function requires no parameters...and eventually self-destructs :-)

    -Chris

    --
    --an unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys--
    1. Re:First Entry by sielwolf · · Score: 4, Funny
      call dwnld_porn(kiddie);
      Hmmm. I see you loaded Peter Townsend service pack!
      --
      What is music when you despise all sound?
  7. A computer that acts like people? by the_mad_poster · · Score: 5, Funny

    I never understood this. Why would I want a computer that ridicules my hair, dress, and generally pathetic life? If I wanted that, I'd just get married!

    --
    Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
  8. Re:Wetware is... by WetCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wetware is a software written by WetCat.
    Or it's just a packaged swimsuits.
    Can a robot tell the packaged swimsuits from
    the packaged computer games and software in
    the shelves of Wal-Mart?

  9. More Basic by shoemakc · · Score: 5, Funny

    REM HUMAN V2.3

    10 BUILD STUFF
    20 WANT MORE STUFF
    30 BUILD MORE STUFF
    40 WANT STUFF YOU CANT HAVE
    50 BUILD WEAPONS TO TAKE STUFF FROM WHO DOES HAVE
    60 GAIN ENEMIES
    70 BUILD BIGGER WEAPONS FOR DEFENSE
    80 BUILD SUPER WEAPON
    90 DESTROY SELVES
    99 GOTO 10

    --
    --an unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys--
  10. Re:get it right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Which is short for Calcutta Tech.

  11. What humans are you talking about here? by rufusdufus · · Score: 4, Funny

    The following is an example game file your program is supposed to output a dataset for that is "most human". I give you:

    NFG 1 R "game1" { "1" "2" } { 2 2 }

    21 3 3 5 3 5 5 3
    What is the most human response? Anyone? Anyone?

  12. Re: Sad is by SuperMario666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    sad /sad/ adj. 1. Bereft of happiness. 2. Human beings (programmers, operators, administrators) so attached to a computer system that their hardware will never encounter any wetware.

  13. Where do they get the humans? by forii · · Score: 5, Funny
    The Turing tournament is a two sided tournament designed to find the best computer programs to mimic human behavior.


    I don't think Caltech is the best place to determine what is "human" behavior.



    Life at Caltech.



    Also, notice that this contest is being held by the "Division of Humanities and Social Sciences".

  14. pff... real AI coders use scheme by autopr0n · · Score: 3, Funny

    (define humanator2 (lambda sex pr0n)
    (if(and sex (not (isKiddy pr0n))
    (masterbate sex pr0n)
    0)))

    --
    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  15. One Game by The_Shadows · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only game I want to play is Global Thermonuclear War.

  16. Re:Programs to play games and programs to catch th by heby · · Score: 2, Funny

    go away or i'll replace you with a very simple shell script.

  17. Go Caltech! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    ...Obfuscating simple concepts for our lessers since 1891...

    Go Beavers!