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From: arc@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Conway)
Subject: Yet another Loebner comment
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Perhaps more importantly, why would anyone with a decent text level AI be in
the slightest bit interested in US$2000? For many people it wouldn't even pay
the costs of going to the event. For a partway decent AI, US$100,000 is a
reasonable inducement to go to the event, but someone with really good
audio-visual feedback could make far far more than that elsewhere, so why
would anyone bother with the new rules other than locals with little to
lose? 

I guess there is still the fame and bragging rights, but for someone with
real AI, I think such a contest would be the least of their oportunities.

As I see it the main purpose of the contest is to get people working
together as in a conference. But the AV requirements do nothing to aid that,
and the competetive atmosphere is likely to be counterproductive.

My 2c worth. 

Andrew.

