Loebner Talks AI 107
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."
Don't forget Steve Furbur (Score:5, Informative)
This is news for nerds? (Score:5, Informative)
A waste of time. (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
Re:Sorry, Loebner Has Done Nothing for AI (Score:3, Informative)
Re:A waste of time. (Score:2, 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 [salon.com]
Re:Sorry, Loebner Has Done Nothing for AI (Score:3, Informative)
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...