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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. Those oncology phonies have been promising a cure by hqm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    for cancer for the last thirty years. Frauds!

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