Connectionists: Beyond the Turing Test: CFP AAAI Austin January, 2015 [with corrected links]

[Gary Marcus]

*apologies for multiple postings*

Beyond The Turing Test
Date: January 25th or 26th (exact date determined soon), 2015
Place: Austin Texas, USA
Website: http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/BeyondTuring2015/
Submission Deadline: October 23, 2014


Dear Colleagues,

We are excited 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 arguably in desperate need for a refresh.

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.

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).

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 (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 sample scenarios, duration, diversity and level of human participation, and others). Furthermore, we also welcome submissions of experienced researchers on what can be learned from existing Turing-test related competitions, in terms of science or implementation. We envision that all submissions will include a connection between the concrete points proposed and the expected underlying advancement of AI science and development.

For more information, and to submit, visit http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/BeyondTuring2015/

Gary Marcus, Francesca Rossi, Manuela Veloso
Workshop Organizers
Beyond The Turing Test, a AAAI 2015 Workshop



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