'Rose' Wins 2015 Loebner Contest, But Big Prize Remains Unclaimed

The Next Web reports that developer Bruce Wilcox created the most convincing bot entered in this year's annual Loebner Competition. His latest entry, a chatbot named Rose, passed itself (herself?) off as a 30-year-old security consultant well enough to fool judges for a few minutes. But Wilcox's first-place entry was still not good enough to win the $100,000 Loebner Prize, to be given only for a more convincing impersonation. The article notes: "This isn't Wilcox’s first entry – or win. In 2010, he took first place with a bot named 'Suzette,' and followed that up in 2011 with another win using a new bot called 'Rosette.'"

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Winner?

[AmiMoJo]

This is the conversation they tested the "winner" with: http://www.aisb.org.uk/media/f...

While it's kinda impressive that AI can do that, it's also clear that we are still a very, very, very long way from having a computer impersonate a human. What really surprises me is how hard all the entries found basic logic questions to be - I guess it is the language parsing bit that is giving them grief.