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Loving the robot: How thinking computers can make us better people

...the last few years. The test is now run annually as the Loebner Prize, and takes place this year in October at the University of... Read more

1 July, 2011 by Steve Ranger

Bots fail to live up to Turing Test - again

...behaviour in a chatroom, according to the results of this year's Loebner Prize Contest in AI. The Loebner Prize is based on a prediction... Read more

22 October, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

ALICE talks her way to victory in AI challenge

...Entity -- has won the bronze medal and $2,000 at the annual Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence. Developed since 1995 by Dr Richard Wallace of... Read more

16 October, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Wednesday 22/10/2003It's time for the Loebner Prize, the contest to see if artificial intelligence is up to passing... Read more

24 October, 2003

Artificial intelligence: How advanced will AI be in 2100?

...quizzed some of the field's foremost thinkers to find out... Hugh Loebner, inventorThat's hard to say. [Mathematician and scientist Alan] Turing, I believe... Read more

4 March, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Wednesday 22/10/2003It's time for the Loebner Prize, the contest to see if artificial intelligence is up to passing... Read more

24 October, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...is one such -- it might have won a bronze medal in the Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence, judged in the Science Museum this weekend, but... Read more

19 October, 2001

News Schmooze: Thumbs up to 3G auctions, says NAO

...the artificial intelligence who got the highest score at this year's Loebner prize. At least it (she?) is capable of coming out and saying... Read more

19 October, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...is one such -- it might have won a bronze medal in the Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence, judged in the Science Museum this weekend, but... Read more

19 October, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

Scientists teach computer to speak

...reputation in the field of artificial intelligence. In 1996, he won the Loebner prize, awarded by the Cambridge Centre for Behavioural Studies in Australia to... Read more

12 April, 2001 by Will Knight
PandoraBots 1.7

PandoraBots 1.7

...interface -Multiple bots- A.L.I.C.E bot winner of the Loebner Prize competition compellable only with OS 3.0 and above Read more

20 February, 2010
BotBuddies 1.1.0

BotBuddies 1.1.0

...AliceBot - Created by Dr. Richard Wallace, the original ALICE Bot won the Loebner Prize 3 times for her ability to chat with people.Features / Notes... Read more

17 December, 2009

Gates, open source, Azure and the cloud

...Artificial intelligence put to the Turing Test silicon.com spoke to Hugh Loebner, the founder of a competition designed to find the first true example... Read more

30 December, 2008 by Tim Ferguson
MegaHAL/Mac 9.0.3

MegaHAL/Mac 9.0.3

...an AI conversation simulator, originally written by Jason Hutchens for the 1998 Loebner AI Contest, that allows users to talk to a psychotic AI. Unlike... Read more

6 March, 2002

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