Loebner Prize in Artificial Intelligence

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The Loebner Prize in Artificial Intelligence is an annual contest to determine whether any entering software satisfies the Turing Test. The following is extracted from the Loebner Prize web page.

The test is named after Alan Turing the brilliant British mathematician. Among his many accomplishments was basic research in computing science. In 1950, in the article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" which appeared in the philosophy journal Mind, Alan Turing asked the question "Can a Machine Think?" He answered in the affirmative, but a central question was: "If a computer could think, how could we tell?" Turing's suggestion was, that if the responses from the computer were indistinguishable from that of a human,the computer could be said to be thinking.

The Loebner Prize 2010 Competition will be held here (California State University, Los Angeles) on October 23, 2010.