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Albert is top talking computer
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A program called Albert has won the prize for the world's best chat-bot - a computer that can hold a conversation. Its witty one liners, quirky questi...
A program called Albert has won the prize for the world's best chat-bot - a computer that can hold a conversation. Its witty one liners, quirky questi...
Alice chatbot wins for third time
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A computer chat program called Alice has won a prestigious prize for human-like conversation for the third time. It was judged to be chattiest bot out o...
A computer chat program called Alice has won a prestigious prize for human-like conversation for the third time. It was judged to be chattiest bot out o...
Alice chats like a winner
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The Loebner Prize is awarded every year; it is based on the Turing Test, where the intelligence of a program is tested by getting it to communicate with a ...
The Loebner Prize is awarded every year; it is based on the Turing Test, where the intelligence of a program is tested by getting it to communicate with a ...
ALICE in AI land
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More and more websites are using chatbots to spice up visitors' interactive experiences, but most people don't make the connection between chatbot programm...
More and more websites are using chatbots to spice up visitors' interactive experiences, but most people don't make the connection between chatbot programm...
Artificial stupidity
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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 t...
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 t...
Artificial stupidity, Part 2
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If Hugh Loebner’s contest is just hokum, and the Turing test has outlived its usefulness, why should we care about it or its various squabbling parti...
If Hugh Loebner’s contest is just hokum, and the Turing test has outlived its usefulness, why should we care about it or its various squabbling parti...
Chat program scoops the prize for being almost human
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Her name is Joan; she is just a few years old and very talkative... and now she is officially the world's most human computer program. On Sunday, th...
Her name is Joan; she is just a few years old and very talkative... and now she is officially the world's most human computer program. On Sunday, th...
Chatbot George gets a makeover
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AT LAST, a chatbot you can actually chat to. George, the winner of last year’s illustrious Loebner prize for most convincing conversational progra...
AT LAST, a chatbot you can actually chat to. George, the winner of last year’s illustrious Loebner prize for most convincing conversational progra...
Chatty computer wins again
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A computer chat program called Alice has won the Loebner Prize for the second time. The program triumphed in the annual competition to find the computer w...
A computer chat program called Alice has won the Loebner Prize for the second time. The program triumphed in the annual competition to find the computer w...
Computer professionals celebrate 10th birthday of A.L.I.C.E.
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More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the A.L.I.C.E. chat robot gathered in Guildford, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tent...
More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the A.L.I.C.E. chat robot gathered in Guildford, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tent...
Computer professionals celebrate 10th birthday of A.L.I.C.E.
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More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the A.L.I.C.E. chat robot gathered in Guildford, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tent...
More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the A.L.I.C.E. chat robot gathered in Guildford, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tent...
Computers get chattier
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A computer program called Alex has put on one of the best chatterbot performances ever in a BBC Megalab '99 experiment. It fooled 27% of people who ...
A computer program called Alex has put on one of the best chatterbot performances ever in a BBC Megalab '99 experiment. It fooled 27% of people who ...
Don't Read Me: Program dB
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This document describes the organization and use of Program dB, an experimental Alicebot engine that won the Loebner Prize in October 2001. Ideally this do...
This document describes the organization and use of Program dB, an experimental Alicebot engine that won the Loebner Prize in October 2001. Ideally this do...
German chatty bot is 'most human'
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A German computer program has chatted its way to first place in the Loebner Prize for human-like communication. British hope, Jabberwacky, came joint th...
A German computer program has chatted its way to first place in the Loebner Prize for human-like communication. British hope, Jabberwacky, came joint th...
HISTORY OF THE PC THERAPIST
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First program to win the Loebner Prize The first PC Therapist program was written in 1986. Joseph Weintraub, the author, had graduated with a degree in ...
First program to win the Loebner Prize The first PC Therapist program was written in 1986. Joseph Weintraub, the author, had graduated with a degree in ...
How To Be Human
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If this year’s winner of the Loebner Prize is on the right track, call-center data could be what’s needed to achieve the ultimate goal of artif...
If this year’s winner of the Loebner Prize is on the right track, call-center data could be what’s needed to achieve the ultimate goal of artif...
Hugh Loebner defends his Turing Test contest and responds to John Sundman's
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Hugh Loebner defends his Turing Test contest and responds to John Sundman's Artificial Stupidity. I am the subject of the article “Artificial ...
Hugh Loebner defends his Turing Test contest and responds to John Sundman's Artificial Stupidity. I am the subject of the article “Artificial ...
Human or machine? Jabberwacky chatbot put to the ultimate test.
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UK finalist, Jabberwacky, goes for gold at the International 2003 Loebner Prize Contest, a version of the Turing Test to find the most 'human' arti...
UK finalist, Jabberwacky, goes for gold at the International 2003 Loebner Prize Contest, a version of the Turing Test to find the most 'human' arti...
Lessons from a Restricted Turing Test
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We report on the recent Loebner prize competition inspired by Turing's test of intelligent behavior. The presentation covers the structure of the compe...
We report on the recent Loebner prize competition inspired by Turing's test of intelligent behavior. The presentation covers the structure of the compe...
Loebner 2011 winner - Bruce Wilcox Interview
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Here I am happy to once again present our annual Loebner Prize Winner interview. Questions were gathered from the members of Ai Dreams. This year Bruce Wil...
Here I am happy to once again present our annual Loebner Prize Winner interview. Questions were gathered from the members of Ai Dreams. This year Bruce Wil...
Mitsuku wins 2019 Loebner Prize
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For the fourth consecutive year, Steve Worswick’s Mitsuku has won the Loebner Prize for the most humanlike chatbot entry to the contest. This is the ...
For the fourth consecutive year, Steve Worswick’s Mitsuku has won the Loebner Prize for the most humanlike chatbot entry to the contest. This is the ...
Mitsuku wins Loebner Prize 2018!
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The Loebner Prize 2018 was held in Bletchley Park, England on September 8th this year and Mitsuku won it for a 4th time to equal the record number of wins....
The Loebner Prize 2018 was held in Bletchley Park, England on September 8th this year and Mitsuku won it for a 4th time to equal the record number of wins....
Mohan Embar Interview - 2012 Loebner Prize Winner with Chip Vivant
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Here we are pleased to present an interview with Mohan Embar the winner of this year's prize with his chat bot Chip Vivant. Congratulations to Mohan on...
Here we are pleased to present an interview with Mohan Embar the winner of this year's prize with his chat bot Chip Vivant. Congratulations to Mohan on...
My Psychiatrist is a Robot !
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I have been experimenting with the development of a therapy bot in collaboration with computer scientist and three-time Loebner Prize winner Dr. Richard Wa...
I have been experimenting with the development of a therapy bot in collaboration with computer scientist and three-time Loebner Prize winner Dr. Richard Wa...
Notes on the Loebner Contest Grand Prize Rules
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This document was submitted as a position paper for the Human Computer Conversation workshop being held in conjunction with the January, 1998 Loebner Compe...
This document was submitted as a position paper for the Human Computer Conversation workshop being held in conjunction with the January, 1998 Loebner Compe...
Steve Worswick Interview - Loebner 2013 winner
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It's our annual Loebner Prize Interview, comprised of questions asked over the years by members of AiDreams. This year the competition was held in Derr...
It's our annual Loebner Prize Interview, comprised of questions asked over the years by members of AiDreams. This year the competition was held in Derr...
Think Fast, Clever Robot
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HALF A CENTURY ago, Alan Turing, the mathematician who pioneered computational theory, came up with a simple test to determine whether or not a computer co...
HALF A CENTURY ago, Alan Turing, the mathematician who pioneered computational theory, came up with a simple test to determine whether or not a computer co...
Turing Test 2: A Sense of Humor
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Salon has a great story, Artificial Stupidity, about the Loebner Prize, a yearly contest that for over 10 years now has offered a $100,000 prize to anyone ...
Salon has a great story, Artificial Stupidity, about the Loebner Prize, a yearly contest that for over 10 years now has offered a $100,000 prize to anyone ...
AIlysse
[Chatbots - English]
Ailysse is a chatbot, an artificial intelligence program you can talk with just as you would with another person. Ailysse is based on Dr. Richard S. Walla...
Ailysse is a chatbot, an artificial intelligence program you can talk with just as you would with another person. Ailysse is based on Dr. Richard S. Walla...
Anna
[Chatbots - English]
Anna is a chatbot designed to pass the Turing Test - having a human judge incapable of telling that the bot they are chatting to is not human. The most for...
Anna is a chatbot designed to pass the Turing Test - having a human judge incapable of telling that the bot they are chatting to is not human. The most for...
Anna
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Anna is a chatbot designed to pass the Turing Test - having a human judge incapable of telling that the bot they are chatting to is not human. The most for...
Anna is a chatbot designed to pass the Turing Test - having a human judge incapable of telling that the bot they are chatting to is not human. The most for...
Brian
[Chatbots - English]
BRIAN is a computer program that thinks it is an 18 year old college student. It was written as an entry in the 1998 Loebner Competition, where it won t...
BRIAN is a computer program that thinks it is an 18 year old college student. It was written as an entry in the 1998 Loebner Competition, where it won t...
Elbot
[Chatbots - English]
The purpose of Elbot is to converse with users about any topic under the sun, rather than a specialized and self-contained set of FAQs as is usually the de...
The purpose of Elbot is to converse with users about any topic under the sun, rather than a specialized and self-contained set of FAQs as is usually the de...
Ella
[Chatbots - English]
This is where the ultimate natural language robot is taking shape. Take a few minutes to explore and learn about Ella's achievements and future as a rob...
This is where the ultimate natural language robot is taking shape. Take a few minutes to explore and learn about Ella's achievements and future as a rob...
Eva
[Chatbots - English]
Our chatbot - Eva - was created by Stanusch Technologies SA. Eva, just 4 weeks after launch, competed in Swansea (UK) for the Loebner Prize 2019 with ...
Our chatbot - Eva - was created by Stanusch Technologies SA. Eva, just 4 weeks after launch, competed in Swansea (UK) for the Loebner Prize 2019 with ...
God Louise
[Chatbots - English]
She came in 3rd for the 2002 Loebner Prize! (Well, sorta.....3rd among entrants. The "winner" got the bronze.)
She came in 3rd for the 2002 Loebner Prize! (Well, sorta.....3rd among entrants. The "winner" got the bronze.)
Hex
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DOS-WINDOWS - Hex was created by Jason Hutchens for the 1996 Loebner Prize, which it went on to win. Jason and his website have since disappeared. Despite ...
DOS-WINDOWS - Hex was created by Jason Hutchens for the 1996 Loebner Prize, which it went on to win. Jason and his website have since disappeared. Despite ...
Rob Medeksza Interview
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Loebner 2007 Winner - It's that time of year again, when after many monthsand even years of hard work, programmers finallyoffer their chatbots up forju...
Loebner 2007 Winner - It's that time of year again, when after many monthsand even years of hard work, programmers finallyoffer their chatbots up forju...
Loebner Prize 2009 video
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Loebner Prize Contest 2009, the 19th annual edition of 'The First Turing Test', held in Brighton, United Kingdom. Winner: Do Much More - David Levy. 2nd Cl...
Loebner Prize Contest 2009, the 19th annual edition of 'The First Turing Test', held in Brighton, United Kingdom. Winner: Do Much More - David Levy. 2nd Cl...
Ultra Hal chatbot alive and well in Second Life virtual world.
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Zabaware is the maker of the award winning Ultra Hal software, artificial intelligence technology that won the most human computer of the year in the 17th ...
Zabaware is the maker of the award winning Ultra Hal software, artificial intelligence technology that won the most human computer of the year in the 17th ...
