The Challenges of AI in the Age of Voice Recognition

In 1990 inventor Hugh Lobener endowed a prize for passing the Turing test to be judged at an annual competition. Until the test is passed, a less surprises awarded each year for the entry judged to be closest to passing. The test is harder to implement than it may first seem. One issue is requiring the program to pretend to be a human is both biased and not very relevant to whether it can think. Yet if it does not pretend to be human, it will be easy to identify as a computer regardless of its ability to think.