How is it, if it looks like a human, plays like a human, fights like a human, it is a…? At the annual BotPrize, the question was if a computer can fool expert gamers into believing it is a human. The BotPrize is a variant of the Turing Test.

View the video of a BotPrize judge from last year playing against a bot in Unreal Tournament 2004 or read why the BotPrize is important for AI.

(via technologyreview.com)

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