"Rascals" AI could pass Turing test, with a little help from Blue Gene

The Terminator jokes are overplayed but this is getting a little scary.
What happens when they cross this AI with these Military War Robots?

Unless it is entirely fluent with every Monty Python Sketch and can pun freely it hasn't a snowball in hell's chance.

Del (I too am a time domain reflectrometrist who likes Bach. Do you like Bach? I can wreck a nice beach, can you rcognize speach? Peach? Absolutely nothing can go wrong.click
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Absolutely BEAUTIFUL Del! I'm laughing beyond LOL. But seriously, AI has gone a long way since Eliza, don't you think?

Years ago I got caught up in the Turing test challenge. I began an AI project using Lisp, but somehow, life, kids, dogs, Dels, wives, transfers, irate bosses, pagers, red-eye flights, idiots, friends, lovers, neighbors all got in the way.

Maybe these guys are on to something. I'd like to see more of their work.

Here comes Skynet and the Terminator cyborgs. Someone better study Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics and build them in such a way that they cannot harm us,

CR4 just ran a four-part interview with the AI researcher, Selmer Bringsjord, whose featured in this Engadget article. If you're interested, here are the links.

Engineering Zombies (Part 1)

Engineering Synthetic Minds (Part 2)

Dumb Humans and Ruthless Machines (Part 3)

AI in the Garden of Good and Evil (Part 4)

So, now it's June 9, 2011--anyone know the status / results of this? (I mean, it is now after October, 2008, by at least a little bit. ;-)

I did some simple minded google searches (things like [Rascals "Rensselaer Advanced Synthetic Architecture for Living Systems"] and got 55 hits, but they all seemed to be from around March / April 2008 (ignoring a few in a language like Chinese (maybe) which I had no chance of reading).