[Tyler]

$100K Loebner Prize Turing Test This Sunday
     

The 18th annual Loebner
Prize Turing contest will be held this Sunday at the University of
Reading.  The
Loebner Prize is for $100k and a gold medal to the author of the
winning computer program which can
satisfy the Turing test.  The Turning
Test comes from Alan Turing and his notion of whether or not a
computer's responses
are indistinguishable from a human's responses.  Turing generally
wondered if a computer could actually
think and came up with his ?artificial? intelligence test.  Although
the $100k prize has not
been awarded yet, a bronze
medal and $2k prize is given to the best AI contender each year.  Six judges will
question six
computer programs behind computer screens for five minutes to try to
determine if a human or a computer is behind the screen.  If they can't
tell that the responses come from a computer or human then the computer
program has passed the Turing test.  Although, many people aren't fooled
by chat boxes or AIM
bots, already they can be so powerful that some are easily fooled by
them
and even fall in love
with them or are seduced
by them to give up their private info.
   

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