Turing Test 2: A Sense of Humor

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."

Comments

Re:100,000?

[Rik Sweeney]

For 100 Grand Slashdot could get some editors that would acturally know their ass from a hole in the ground, and stop wtih the double-poasting

And for 100 Grand you could get some private tutoring to help you learn to spell.

The Turing Test Interrogator defines the test

[bshroyer]

While it's obvious that, given a sufficiently simple(minded) Interrogator, many "AI" programs would pass the TT, you may not have considered that:

If the creator (designer, programmer) of the subject "AI" were to sit in the Interrogator's seat, he or she would most likely identify it immediately as non-human.

On the other hand, if the subject AI can "fool" even its own creator, this would be a very strong indicator of intelligence.