The Loebner Prize Contest in Artificial Intelligence was established in 1990 by Hugh Loebner and was first held at the Boston Computer Museum in 1991. The Loebner Prize Medal and cash award is awarded annually to the designer of the computer system that best succeeds in passing a variant of the Turing Test. In accordance with the requirements of the Donor (as published in the June 1994 Communications of the ACM) the winner of the $100,000 Gold Prize must be prepared to deal with audio visual input, and appropriate competitions will be held once Competitors have reached Turing's 50:50 likelihood level of being mistaken for a human. An intermediate Silver Prize of $25,000 will be offered for reaching this level in a text-only test. There is also an Annual Bronze Prize, currently $2,000, which is awarded to the designer of the "most human computer" as rated by a panel of judges.
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