Forum Overview :: Rants :: Yeah, no one cares that ELIZA fooled some idiot back in 1967 when people...

[quote name="Fussbett"]...hadn't even seen a computer before. ELIZA never passed a serious Turing test. Regardless I'm less confident than I was two hours ago because one of my reasons for thinking it's an easy bet rests on the fact that no one gives a shit about the Turing Test. A couple of college students will try it out once in a while between solar cars, but without a money goal like the X-Prize, it'll never happen on it's own. Then I discovered there is the <a href="http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html" target="loe">Loebner Prize</a>, for $100,000. So that sucks for me. The transcripts of past entries look like they might be interesting... but not to download and install Perl and whatnot.[/quote]