| In a new method designed to mimic the abilities of the human mind, a competition designed by the Australian National University uses the popular video game Angry Birds to test the human-like abilities of artificial intelligence. |
The game by Finnish software house Rovio, where users squash green pigs to save their eggs, has been selected as a test of a computer program’s ability to mimic the human mind.
The contest ran last year, and will be repeated in August 2013.
AI developers have been challenged to make an application that is able to play the game as part of a global competition run by the Australian National University’s Artificial Intelligence Group.
The Angry Birds AI challenge is open to developers worldwide in this year’s championship. Developers have until August this year to create intelligent agents that can rival a human’s ability to play the popular game.
Successful game play requires a sophisticated understanding of gravity, momentum, the ability to use different bird powers effectively and more. Forget chess!
The intelligent agents that perform the best will compete at the global finals in Beijing in August.
The competition is an update to the Turing Test an idea put forth by British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950. The Turing Test has a human judge converse via a text interface with both a program and a human. The judge must deduce from the answers received whether the interaction is with a human or a program. A program passes the test if it convinces a judge that it is human in 30 percent of the conversations. Since software normally replies faster than a human, the replies are shown with controlled time intervals.
SOURCE The Register
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