About 50 years ago, Alan Turing, a distinguished mathematician who helped cracked WWII German military code posed the question of "Can machine think?". The answer to this question may now be near an end. On 10/12, six computer programs armed with advanced artificial intelligence will take part in the "Turing Test" to converse textually with human interrogators. If the responses from the computers cannot be distinguished from that of a human, it would have considered to have passed the test. The six computer programs taking part in the test are called Alice, Brother Jerome, Elbot, Eugene Goostman, Jabberwacky and Ultra Hal.

PREDICTION: At least 1 of the 6 programs is considered to have passed the Turing test.

Reference articles:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/05/artificialintelligencea...
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/test.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html