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."

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Re:I particurly like how Loebner

[hqm]

Loebner didn't 'outfox' Minsky. Minsky asked for a prize to get Loebner to revoke his prize, not for someone to win it. But such a simple distinction is lost on an epsilon-minus such as yourself.