Hmmm, well it looks as though it was a robot after all then. It's just that I was reliably informed that a lady called Charlotte was supposed to have conducted this conversation with the judge.
I can't believe that some of the human conversationalists taking part in the Turing Test at Reading University were posing as robots. Surely that's misleading to the judges? I thought Turing's premise was that the benchmark was an intelligent human for the test to work - not some human trying to outfox the judges. Doesn't that render this whole exercise irrelevant?
Here's one of the conversations that one of the judges was having with, what turned out to be, a human:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/image_galleries/turing_test_loebner_prize_gallery.shtml?9
And in this article the audio interview with Loebner clearly states that the humans have to be deemed as intelligent, and therefore engage in conversation in a logical manner.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2008/10/12/turing_test_feature.shtml
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Hmmm, well it looks as though it was a robot after all then. It's just that I was reliably informed that a lady called Charlotte was supposed to have conducted this conversation with the judge.
I know it was a human because a friend of mine met her afterwards!
I can't believe that some of the human conversationalists taking part in the Turing Test at Reading University were posing as robots. Surely that's misleading to the judges? I thought Turing's premise was that the benchmark was an intelligent human for the test to work - not some human trying to outfox the judges. Doesn't that render this whole exercise irrelevant? Here's one of the conversations that one of the judges was having with, what turned out to be, a human: http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/image_galleries/turing_test_loebner_prize_gallery.shtml?9 And in this article the audio interview with Loebner clearly states that the humans have to be deemed as intelligent, and therefore engage in conversation in a logical manner. http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2008/10/12/turing_test_feature.shtml