Submission + - The Hutter Prize Increased To 500,000€ and 1GB (hutter1.net)
Hutter's challenge is an advance over the Turing Test. Devised by the famous AI theorist, Alan Turing, a chat bot must be able to fool a human. It is pass-fail. Hutter's prize incrementally awards distillation of Wikipedia's storehouse of human knowledge to its essence. This judging criterion derives from a mathematical theory of natural science, informally known as "Occam's Razor". Formally it is called Algorithmic Information Theory or AIT. AIT is, according to Hutter's "AIXI" theory, essential to Universal Intelligence.
Hutter's judging criterion is superior to Turing's in 3 ways:
1) It is objective,
2) It rewards incremental improvements,
3) It is founded on a mathematical theory of natural science.
Detailed rules for the contest and answers to frequently asked questions are available.