<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 9px;" id="docs-internal-guid-7cc4d315-e99b-a644-823f-7df75cbc4587"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*apologies for multiple postings*</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-7cc4d315-e99b-a644-823f-7df75cbc4587"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-7cc4d315-e99b-a644-823f-7df75cbc4587"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Beyond The Turing Test</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Date: January 25th or 26th (exact date determined soon), 2015</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Place: Austin Texas, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Website: <a href="http://www.aaaivideos.org">http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/BeyondTuring2015/</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Submission Deadline: October 23, 2014</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><div><br></div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">We are excited </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial;">to announce a workshop devoted to developing a successor to the Turing Test. That test, now over 60 years old, has long served as a highly visible, public signpost for research in artificial intelligence. But is also highly game-able, and</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial;">arguably in desperate need for a refresh.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><br>The purpose of this workshop, a mixture of invited lectures, panels, posters, and group discussion, is to craft a replacement, an annual or bi-annual Turing Championship, that might consist of 3-5 different challenging tasks, with bragging rights given to the first programs to achieve human-level performance in each task.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Tentative list of invited speakers includes Peter Clark (AI2), Ken Forbus (Northwestern), Barbara Grosz (Harvard), Hiroaki Kitano (Sony CSL), Doug Lenat (Cycorp), Gary Marcus (NYU), Leora Morgenstern (Leidos), Charles Ortiz (Nuance), Tomaso Poggio (MIT), Manuela Veloso (CMU), and Patrick Winston (MIT).</span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">We seek submissions (2 page extended abstracts) that concretely address points of relevance to the creation of new Turing-inspired challenges. Submissions might address issues such as</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">(1) choice of test materials, perhaps of incremental complexity; (2) evaluation metrics; (3) logistics of the competition (for example, in terms of the availability of</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">sample scenarios, duration, diversity and level of human participation, and others). Furthermore, we also welcome submissions of experienced researchers on</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">what can be learned from existing Turing-test related competitions, in terms of science or implementation. We envision that all submissions will include a</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">connection between the concrete points proposed and the expected underlying advancement of AI science and development.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">For more information, and to submit, visit </span></font><a href="http://www.aaaivideos.org" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/BeyondTuring2015/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15;">Gary Marcus, Francesca Rossi, Manuela Veloso</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15;">Workshop Organizers</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15;">Beyond The Turing Test, a AAAI 2015 Workshop</span></div><br><br><br></div>
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