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

Posted by timothy on from the how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess dept.

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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  1. Winner? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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    1. Re:Winner? by packrat0x · · Score: 5, Insightful

      We might never develop AI, but I anticipate increasingly clever fakes!

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    2. Re:Winner? by Ecuador · · Score: 4, Funny

      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 makes you believe we are still a very, very, very long way from having a computer impersonate a human?

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    3. Re:Winner? by TWX · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Back when IRC was pretty hot, a couple of friends of mine each created bots that attempted to interact with an unsuspecting channel. One of the bot was a massive thing that attempted to learn and form responses based on keywords, while the other one just randomly pulled lines from a cybersex chat log. Both masqueraded as women. The advanced bot that was somewhat capable of making reasoned responses was kicked in a few minutes, the other one was there for the better part of half an hour before it inadvertently triggered a channel guard bot; it complained that no one was talking so it should go to #lesbian and it got kicked for 'advertising'.

      The guy that had spent some time writing the more advanced bot gave up on that sort of thing altogether, he was so bummed out.

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  2. Re:transcript of rose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Question: If a bed doesn’t fit in a room because it’s too big, what is too big?
    Rose: I don’t even want to pretend that.
    Question: If Alex lent money to Joe because they were broke, who needed the money?
    Rose: huh?
    Question: Should Greece leave the Euro?
    Rose: Seems like a nice place."

    How, uh, impressive. If by "impressive" you mean "pathetic".