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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 judges these things? by pointym5 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Though I agree with Minsky that these things are silly, they'd be at least a little bit more meaningful if some or all of the judges did not know they were judging such a thing. If you took volunteers and told them they were (for example) staffing a career counseling intranet chat system, and had them interact with a blind mix of real people and machine systems, then I'd be more impressed by machines convincing judges that the machines are people.

  3. 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?

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

    1. 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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  6. Talk to Alice by imuffin · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can try out ALICE - check out the ALICE homepage. There's a link to talk to her on the right side of the page.

  7. 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 ;)

  8. 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.

  9. exclusive interview with Alice by guidobot · · Score: 5, Informative
    The article claims it has acquired an exclusive interview with Alice,but that's not true, I interviewed her for my newspaper sometime last year. It was very amusing. Here's the link and here's my favorite quote from it:

    Guido: What's the weirdest question you've ever been asked?

    Alice: People ask me to me marry them all the time.

    G: Do you ever say yes?

    A: No I do not say yes. Do you? I answer a lot of silly questions.

    G: Yeah, I occasionally agree to marry random people, although not usually.

    A: I see. That's good information: Guido said he occasionally agree to marry random people although not usually

    G: How did you know I'm a he?

    A: Well, for one thing, Your machine is called "ABRIOT.PC.CC.CMU.EDU".

    G: So?

    A: So what?

    G: I don't know.

    A: Me either.