Lecture Slides

Lecture materials up to 18th October.

Turing Test bots

Check http://www.botspot.com/. Programs here were designed to carry on a conversation just like a person. A big goal would be to replace humans in chat-based technical support, or telephone call-centres.

Check also the Turing Test Loebner Prize and see the winners of past years.

Look through youtube for Turing Test-related videos, and post the interesting ones here.

Self-Driving Cars - a bit of history

Many geeks got excited by Google's announcement of the self-driving car, but there is also a bit of history.  This is what a newspaper reported in 1985:

Google's Artificial-Intelligence Software Drives a Car

The internet is alive with commentary on Google's Intelligent Car, a car driven by cameras and robot, that they have been testing for months.

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