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ALICE Takes Medal At AI Competition

Posted by timothy on from the more-human-than-some-people dept.

jeffy124 writes: "The Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (ALICE) has won the bronze and the top marks at the Loebner AI Challenge, a competition based on the Turing test. Silver and gold remain unawarded as silver requires convincing half the judges the AI program is a human, and the gold requires speech interaction rather than text. ALICE repeated as this year's bronze by scoring best among all the entries. She failed to convince half the judges she was human, so she has to stick to bronze. The event took place last Saturday at the London Science Museum."

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  1. What makes you believe alice takes medal? by RPoet · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (ALICE) has won the bronze and the top marks at the Loebner AI Challenge, a competition based on the Turing test.

    You have your mind on computers, it seems.

    Silver and gold remain unawarded as silver requires convincing half the judges the AI program is a human, and the gold requires speech interaction rather than text.

    Why do you say that?

    ALICE repeated as this year's bronze by scoring best among all the entries. She failed to convince half the judges she was human, so she has to stick to bronze.

    I don't understand.

    The event took place last Saturday at the London Science Museum.

    Maybe your plans have something to do with this.

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  2. Who is the poor human that failed the Turing test? by Per+Abrahamsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article:

    > ALICE was judged better than a human
    > correspondent only once during the testing.

    I wonder how the humans scored in general. With one sad exception, they did better than the best AI, but did they all pass the test?

  3. get new judges by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Silver and gold remain unawarded as silver requires convincing half the judges the AI program is a human

    I suggest filling the judging panel with ICQ users with AOL email accounts next year: Silver will be a shoo-in.

  4. Re:It's interesting watching people interact by Rogerborg · · Score: 5, Funny
    • I'd say that a fair percentage of people never realize that they're not interacting with a human

    Why do you think that the incoming messages are from "people"? ;-)

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  5. Re:Who is the poor human that failed the Turing te by MindStalker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maby it was her attitude that won her.
    Example: I was just trying her out and one part of the conversation was.

    Me-> Your Stupid.
    Alice-> I may be stupid, but atleast I know the difference between "you're" and "your".
    Me-> You're Stupid.
    Alice-> I will remember you said that when the robots take over the world.