Artificially Intelligent Game Bots Pass the Turing Test On Turing's Centenary

[Bosonic]

Not the classical conversation-based Turing Test, but a gaming analog.

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An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed against.

The competition was sponsored by 2K Games and was set inside the virtual world of "Unreal Tournament 2004," a first-person shooter video game. The winners were announced this month at the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games.

"The idea is to evaluate how we can make game bots, which are nonplayer characters (NPCs) controlled by AI algorithms, appear as human as possible," said Risto Miikkulainen, professor of computer science in the College of Natural Sciences. Miikkulainen created the bot, called the UT^2 game bot, with doctoral students Jacob Schrum and Igor Karpov.

The bots face off in a tournament against one another and about an equal number of humans, with each player trying to score points by eliminating its opponents. Each player also has a "judging gun" in addition to its usual complement of weapons. That gun is used to tag opponents as human or bot.

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[TrogL]

1. I routinely fail the Turing test

[Soylent Brice]

2. awesome. n/t

[littlemissmartypants]

3. I love this.

Thanks Bosonic! Sorry but I can't help but think "Romney Bot" acts more real than the real ...