The concept behind'Movie Mustache' is simple, but revolutionary. This game was foreign to me until a few weeks ago when I got to experience it watching the Adam Sandler classic, The Waterboy. As amazing as it was to watch every single character wear the handlebar mustaches that were taped to the TV, that paled in comparison to the problem statement that followed: How can we place the mustaches to maximize our drinking as a group? As always, the code seen here can be viewed in its entirety on my GitHub. Due to the availability of facial recognition packages, this problem can be solved in less than a day with the right approach.

An year or so ago, a chatbot named Eugene Goostman made it to the mainstream news, after having been reported as the first computer program to have passed the famed Turing Test in an event organized at the University of Reading. While the organizers hailed it as a historical achievement, most of the scientific community wasn't impressed. This leads us to the question: Is the Turing Test, in its original form, a suitable test for AI in the modern day? In the last couple of years, a number of papers (like this paper from JHU/Brown, and this one from MPI) have suggested that the task of Visual Question Answering (VQA, for short) can be used as an alternative Turing Test. The task involves answering an open-ended question (or a series of questions) about an image.