QOTD
“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”
- A Turing from www.thinkexist.com/quotes/alan_turing
Follow the links, if you like.
What's cooler than the Turing Test?
The kitty is a (paltry) $100K in the so-cool Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence.
They announced the results of this year's competition: 2008 Loebner Prize Competition Results
The winner was a program called Elbot. If you go there, you can talk to the winner, Elbot.

The good news: According to ACM, 25% of the judges at Loebner thought that Elbot was human. That's the highest rating ever.

The bad news: If you go talk to Elbot, it still seems really, um, kinda dumb. In fact, here's the transcript from Elbot's (winning) showing at Loebner: www.loebner.net/Prizef/2008_Contest/Elbot.pdf... which again doesn't seem "all that."

The really good news: It'll happen. Chop chop. What... 10 years?
ACM also had an article about robots taking over service industry jobs.
This stuff is too cool, and then someone will do it, and it'll be poo-poo'd... like computer chess programs.
And then onto the next coolest thing ever.

QOTD2 (en homage to Holly)
“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”
- A Turing
smath... yow, bill

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