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A machine with superhuman intelligence is a staple of science fiction. But what about a machine with just ordinary human intelligence? A machine that's so human-like in its behavior that you can't tell if it's a computer acting like a human, or a real human?

That's what a Turing Test is designed to explore. The test is named for the British computer scientist Alan Turing, who first proposed it.

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Dartmouth College has issued a call to artists, but it's as likely to appeal to mathematicians, software developers and artificial-intelligence researchers as it is to poets and musicians. The ideal entrants may need strengths in both the former and latter categories.

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Can an algorithm pass for an author? Can a robot rock the house? A series of contests at Dartmouth College is about to find out.

Dartmouth is seeking artificial intelligence algorithms that create "human-quality" short stories, sonnets and dance music sets that will be pitted against human-produced literature, poetry and music selections. The judges won't know which is which.

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Can an algorithm pass for an author? Can a robot rock the house? A series of contests at Dartmouth College is about to find out. Dartmouth is seeking artificial intelligence algorithms that create "human-quality" short stories, sonnets and dance music sets that will be pitted against human-produced literature, poetry and music selections. The judges won't know which is which.

CONCORD, N.H. — Can an algorithm pass for an author? Can a robot rock the house? A series of contests at Dartmouth College is about to find out.
Dartmouth is seeking artificial intelligence algorithms that create "human-quality" short stories, sonnets and dance music sets that will be pitted against human-produced literature, poetry and music selections. The judges won't know which is which.
The goal is to determine whether people can distinguish between the two, and whether they might even prefer the computer-generated creativity.

There are robot reporters and robot chefs, but for the most part, the creative world has been free from the rise of the robots. One definition of art is “something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings.” Can something that does not feel create art?
Dartmouth College wants to find out.

http://qz.com/440666/will-computers-be-our-next-famous-writers-and-djs/

Dartmouth’s Neukom Institute for Computational Science is launching AI contests to see if a robot can write a novel, a poem, or dance music.
Robots can do any number of tasks and are getting increasingly human-like. But can even the best among them write a poem?
http://fortune.com/2015/06/29/can-a-robot-write-a-poem/

Chatting with robots is old hat, why not get fooled by a robo-Proust or an AI Diplo? Dartmouth’s finally giving us the Turing championship we need.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dartmouth-is-holding-a-turing-test-comp...