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Next Sunday, six computer programs are going to try to beat the Turing Test. Their creators are competing for the Loebner Prize in Artificial Intelligence, worth $100,000. Could this be the year that the Turing Test is beaten by a computer — and by doing so, fooling a human being into thinking it is another human?

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No program has yet to pass the famed Turing Test, but another set of would be HAL 9000s is about to try.

On Sunday October 12, six computer chatterbots will sit down with six human judges at the University of Reading and try to convince them that they are not machines, but humans. The winner might take away the grand Loebner Prize worth $100,000.

Followup to: The Magnitude of His Own Folly I remember (dimly, as human memories go) the first time I self-identified as a "Bayesian". Someone had just asked a malformed version of an old probability puzzle, saying: If I meet a mathematician on the street, and she says, "I have two children, and at least one of them is a boy," what is the probability that they are both boys?

An annual test will start next Sunday to determine if computers can think well enough to fool judges into believing the computer is human during the "Turing Test." If machines are determined to have a "consciousness" will they then be given "rights"?

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SFUniverse readers, your mission should you choose to accept it is to outwit the 20Q artificial intelligence in regards to Star Trek lore. Players pick a person, place or thing (in this case from the Star Trek universe) and the advanced AI has 20 questions to guess it in.