The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute representatives announced they have finished developing an AI able to pass an avatar version of the Turing test (to convince a person that it is human by communicating in a virtual environment like Second Life). They named the bot “Rascals”, which stands for Rensselaer Advanced Synthetic Architecture for Living Systems. As you would have expected, this achievement will require a great deal of technical resources, and the team will be using Blue Gene, the world`s fastest supercomputer from IBM, to run the AI in real time. …