Turing Test Competition At CalTech

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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They SHOULD have said:

The Turing Tournament at Cal Tech wants to distribute $20,000 of the school's funds to their 'internet friends', Caltech friends, and other IVY league schoolers whom they would explain the contest to in human terms.

The contest strives to limit the accessibility of other people by not using human terms whenever possible, and by making the contest information as uninteresting and hard to follow and understand as possible to regular internet visitors to keep the pool as low as possible.

This decreases the chance high school kids or other 2 and 4 year college students would know about this since their professors would not read the dready explanations that they would then have to interpret and explain to students, when the rules and explanations should have been obviously simple to understand already.

Since the attempt is clearly to have a small amount of entries, this makes the competition mostly garbage."

Seriously, their page says it was made with LaTeX2HTML, but they only wrote that because they seriously knew they wouldn't have fooled anyone with telling us the directions were written by a human.