AI and the Turing Test

• AI has been around for a while; it depend on how you count, but more than 50 years.
• A definition of AI is hard but a good one centers around the idea of solving the Turing test.
• The test is ill posed but roughly, you put a human in one room, a machine in another, and a human tester in the third.
• The tester is linked to the other two rooms by a teletype (or a computer).
• The tester communicates with each individually via the teletype.
• The tester has as long as he likes to try to determine which is the machine and which the human.
• If he can't determine or does so at chance, the machine is intelligent.
• This currently runs under the guise of the Loebner prize.
• We're not even close to solving it.