Most human human

You must work very hard to convince the judges that you're human, You shouldn't
have any trouble doing that - because you are human.

This is what Robert Epstein told a panel of five humans who's task was to compete against computers for being most human. The inspiration for this event dates back to the earliest days of computing. In 1950, pioneer Alan Turing proposed that if a computer could successfully impersonate a human being during a free-form exchange of text messages, then for all practical purposes, the computer should be considered intelligent. To really make the humans try hard there was a little side award for the most human human.

You can argue that this "Turing test" really is not the core of the issue about computers being able to think. Many argue that all computers has to be programmed, which is true, and that this implicates that computers never really can think, which is false. The interesting thing here is that a computer really does not need to be programmed by a human. A computer could do the programming. But does this really mean anything? Yes, because programming a computer to do the programming of the second one you can allow the first one to do his job randomly. But, putting a monkey at the keyboard hacking away randomly would certainly not result in a program exhibiting thinking qualities. Yes that is correct, but then you round up a thousand, a million or more of these little programming computers and make them compete in an evolutionary manner. I bet this article would not give me any award for being the most human human, but is is really written by me? Going down for maintenance.