wanna have $100,000?? well ! brush up your intelligence!!

hmm...$100,000??? sounds lucrative?? not for free!! we all know about the allan turing test which is considered to be the ultimate hurdle so far in AI. still some people do not agree with my last line.
indeed,candidate programs are still entered into an imitation game competition every year.this is known as the "loebner prize" after Dr.Hugh Loebner,the inventor and industrialist who has offered a prize of 100,000 dollars for the first program to pass his version of the turing test.
check it out at http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

Good news is that no one has won the first prize as yet and the bad news is the programs winning the 2000 dollars award are simple computer programs that are designed to give the 'illusion' of holding a conversation .Nowadays such programs are called "chatbots".they have a number of set responses which they print out in response to various inputs by the interrogator.This is a technique first used in a program called ELIZA in 1996 but these refinements really don't contribute to the development of AI.
For example if the program prints highly opinionated text about matters that are highly political or sexual,then the interrogators might be forced into believing that it's a human.BUT IT TELLS NOTHING ABOUT HOW TO BUILD INTELLIGENT MACHINES!! DOES IT???
SO STILL LONG WAY TO GO!!