Humanity close to passing the Hofstadter-Turing Test?

April 27, 2009 | Source: The physics arXiv blog

AI researchers at the University of Paderborn in Germany have implemented a version of the Hofstadter-Turing Test in the Second Life virtual world.

An entity passes the Hofstadter-Turing Test if it first creates a virtual reality, then creates a computer program within that reality which must finally recognise itself as an entity within this virtual environment by passing the Hofstadter-Turing Test.