Competition Offering £100,000

A great competition has been announced.

If you are a coder or are in a team of coders maybe this competition is for you.

Paul Kwatz is an author, and he is offering the prize, although he thinks it will be very hard to win, but the money is there waiting for you to prove him wrong.

Personally I think it will not be too difficult if you have the right skills.

To win the big prize you must write a program giving an appliance or computer the freedom to develop its own sense of right and wrong, acting as it saw fit. The choices the device takes can be good or bad, but must be made without any external influence. (sounds like my old laptop)

So if your laptop sits there, and decides to play chess then it's on it's way to winning the prize, maybe it will switch off and then back on when it's cooled down. The choices are open to how your device works.

All entries will be judged by Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London and Fellow of the Royal Society.

The website for the competition is www.consciousrobots.com