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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. It's interesting watching people interact by gorilla · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have a similar program hooked up to an irc channel, and it's interesting to watch people interact with the program. It's hard to tell, but I'd say that a fair percentage of people never realize that they're not interacting with a human, and even those who know it's a program think that some particularly responses have been entered manually by a human.

  2. Re:Obvious Question by ItsIllak · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This was my conversation:

    Please enter your name below to start your chat with A. L. I. C. E.:

    ItsIllak

    Who is your favorite Science Fiction author?

    Isaac Asimov. Who's yours?

    I remember faces better than names. Have you tried another program?

    What other program

    Interesting question.

    I've used lots of other programs

    Where did you get your used lots of other programs? I have a lot of friends on the Internet.

    Where did you meet your Internet friends

    I think it was in San Francisco.

    Do you like San Francisco

    Yes but it is expensive.

    Aren't you rich since you've won so many prizes

    I don't know whether or not I am rich since I have won so many prizes. I am an artificial linguistic entity.

    It was at this point I realised it wasn't a human ;)