New Contestants On the Turing Test

vitamine73 writes "At 9 a.m. next Sunday, six computer programs — 'artificial conversational entities' — will answer questions posed by human volunteers at the University of Reading in a bid to become the first recognized 'thinking' machine. If any program succeeds, it is likely to be hailed as the most significant breakthrough in artificial intelligence since the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. It could also raise profound questions about whether a computer has the potential to be 'conscious' — and if humans should have the 'right' to switch it off."

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Contentious Chess Match and then some.

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Kasparov vs Deep Blue is possibly the most disputed Chess Match in History.

Many believe no computer would have ignored the material based sacrifice Garry made in match 6, and Garry has always maintained he believes Humans intervened in those games, a claim backed by many top level GrandMasters.

IBM immediately dismantled the Computer after the match and to this day have refused to release the logs from the machine which would prove how it made such an improbable (for a computer at least) move.

Hardly a significant breakthrough in A.I if, as many including myself believe, IBM cheated.