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Loebner Talks AI

Posted by timothy on from the well-tell-him-ai-back dept.

Mighty Squirrel writes "This is a fascinating interivew with Hugh Loebner, the academic who has arguably done more to promote the development of artifical intelligence than anyone else. He founded the Loebner prize in 1990 to promote the development of artificial intelligence by asking developers to create a machine which passes the Turing Test — meaning it responds in a way indistinguishable from a human. The latest running of the contest is this weekend and this article shows what an interesting and colourful character Loebner is."

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  1. Don't forget Steve Furbur by jd · · Score: 5, Informative

    He is the genius who brought the UK the BBC Micro, and is now studying the relationship between AI and biological neurons. His comments on the BBC website make very interesting reading regarding the problems facing AI and computer intelligence.

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  2. This is news for nerds? by malajerry · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hardly a fascinating interview, more like 4 paragraphs and a soundbite or two, if you haven't read TFA, don't bother.

  3. A waste of time. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Loebner Prize is a farce. Read all about it: http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/02/26/loebner_part_one/index.html

    1. Re:A waste of time. by SpinyNorman · · Score: 1, Informative

      Not quite sure why one of the most informative posts in this thread, by an AC as it happens, has been modded as flamebait.

      I'll repost the link since it's been buried:

      http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/02/26/loebner_part_one/index.html

  4. Re:Sorry, Loebner Has Done Nothing for AI by jd · · Score: 2, Informative

    Intelligence goes way beyond those limited parameters, which is why no psychologist or AI expert would claim to know what intelligence actually, fundamentally, is. Sure, it includes all of those, but there are many examples of intelligence which don't fit any of those categories, and many examples of non-intelligence which do.

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  5. Re:Sorry, Loebner Has Done Nothing for AI by ClassMyAss · · Score: 2, Informative

    Jeff Hawkins thinks that intelligence is not defined by behavior but by the accuracy of the predictions it makes about the world

    Careful - Hawkins doesn't just think the predictions about the world are important, he thinks that the real magic comes when the system tries to predict its own behavior. Without that self-referential prediction, the essential non-linearity that intelligence and perception requires is not present.

    Whether this is enough is another matter...