From Salon: "The saga of Hugh Loebner and his search for an intelligent bot has almost everything: Sex, lawsuits and feuding computer scientists. There's only one thing missing: Smart machines." Artificial Stupidity.

This article is a maze of twisty passages, all amusing, written by SF novelist John Sundman. Read it slowly, and enjoy it.

The title of Sundman's most recent novella, Cheap Complex Devices, is a quote from Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think", and the book purports to be the proceedings of an artificial intelligence contest compiled by an impartial reader. Sundman contextualizes the Bush quote by placing it beneath a longer one from "Industrial Society and its Future," better known as the Unabomber Manifesto -- that should give you an idea how delightfully twisted it is.