Artificial Intelligence anecdotes: I recently stumbled upon the Long Bets Foundation, a spin-off of the Long Now Foundation. Long Bets allows participants to place bets on predictions about the future, with a minimum running time of 2 years.

Long Bet #1 is as follows: By 2029 no computer - or "machine intelligence" - will have passed the Turing Test. It was placed by Mitchell Kapor (who bet in favor of the prediction) and Ray Kurzweil (who bet against), with each placing $10,000 in stake money. Whoever wins will donate the money to either the EFF or the Kurzweil foundation.

A follow up bet is #172: A machine capable of passing the Turing Test will be made in 2075 using only hardware that was available in 2005. This bet was placed by Kevin Kelly with no opponent. Want to take him up on it?