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Turing Test 2: A Sense of Humor

Posted by michael on from the funny-stuff dept.

mhackarbie writes "Salon has a great story, Artificial Stupidity, about the Loebner Prize, a yearly contest that for over 10 years now has offered a $100,000 prize to anyone who can create a program to pass the Turing Test. The best part is the resulting fiasco that develops between the eccentric philanthropist who started the contest and extremely annoyed AI Researchers such as Marvin Minsky."

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  1. What about people who fail the Turing Test? by Sheriff+Fatman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think bots are the problem... I've had several online conversations which I'd assumed were chat-bots but turned out to be real people. I guess when Turing designed his test, he probably didn't anticipate the massive advances in human stupidity that we've witnessed in the last few decades :)

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    -- Open Source: It's mad, but you don't have to work here to help.
  2. A sense of humour? by mccalli · · Score: 5, Funny
    Computers passed that test years ago. I mean, who can forget the classic:
    keyboard not found, press F1 to continue

    Cheers,
    Ian