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	Blather Misc. Articles: How I Failed The Turing Test Without Even Being There
		The Loebner Prize Contest, founded by a guy named Dr. Hugh Loebner, is an annual "Turing test" based on an idea for a "lying game" that was envisioned in 1950 by the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing.
		Like Turing's game, the Loebner Prize Contest pits man against machine, with judges taking turns at typing messages to a bunch of computer terminals and then ranking them in order, from "most human" to "least human." The computer program rated "most human" gets the consolation prize and everyone goes home either mad or elated.
		They were vying with one another for their own day in the sun, pitching themselves against the notorious Turing test, a testimony to the Loebner Prize Contest as an accepted part of life or some reasonable facsimile thereof.
	www.blather.net /articles/loebner_turing_garner.htm (1341 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| Artificial stupidity
		Then Loebner rebutted Shieber's contention that the contest was premature and gave his rationale for insisting on an annual contest, concluding: "I am not worried that the winning entries in early years are primitive.
		In it he drew attention to a clause in the Loebner contest rules to the effect that using the term "Loebner Competition" without permission could result in a revocation of the prize.
		Loebner immediately wrote back that the best way for Minsky to get Loebner to revoke his prize was to win it.
	archive.salon.com /tech/feature/2003/02/26/loebner_part_one/index4.html (1061 words)

	Loebner Prize Contest 2003
		The 2003 Loebner Prize Contest was held at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK on Saturday 18 October 2003.
		The Loebner Prize Contest is the first formal Turing Test of artificial intelligence.
		Dr Hugh Loebner is a New York philanthropist and donor of the prizes.
	loebner03.hamill.co.uk (659 words)

	Artificial stupidity - Salon
		But Hugh Gene Loebner, a fast-talking hardware manufacturer who has a distracted air, a Ph.D. in sociology, and an intense devotion to what he calls WWS (wine, women and song), is assiduously avoided by virtually everybody who has helped him organize his contests over the past dozen years or so.
		The Loebner competition, they argue, isn't a real measure of progress in artificial intelligence but merely a "bot beauty contest." To mainstream researchers, Loebner is a self-aggrandizing fool and his contest is hokum: at best irrelevant and at worst a public disservice that encourages bad science.
		But the closer one looks at the history of the Loebner Prize, the more it appears that Loebner's real offense was showing up the biggest stars in "real" artificial intelligence as a bunch of phonies.
	www.salon.com /tech/feature/2003/02/26/loebner_part_one/index.html (714 words)

	Artificial stupidity: The Turing Test and AI
		Today, however, Hugh Loebner is on the brink of initiating legal action that may finally do what the combined efforts of his detractors have been unable to do for a decade, which is to make him take his money and go home.
		When you consider that Loebner's degrees are in sociology, not computer or cognitive science, and that before his return to the family business his only employment in the groves of academe was as an assistant director of the statistics center at UMBC, you see what a stunning coup he had pulled off.
		Loebner had just instructed his attorney to tell the center that if it did not make an announcement by Jan. 2, 2003, he would sue to get his money back and thereafter administer the prize himself.
	www.temple.edu /ispr/examples/ex03_02_26.html (4777 words)

	The Loebner Prize.
		I believe serious AI researchers have, on the whole, tended to stay away from the Loebner (it seems that in 1995 Marvin Minsky offered a "prize" of $100 to anyone who could make Hugh Loebner desist from holding the contest), but it has also had support from serious intellectuals.
		Ned Block appears to have been one of this year's judges; Daniel Dennett chaired the panel during some of the early years (but eventually withdrew when he could not get agreement to his plans, which would have seen a number of more 'serious' AI challenges introduced as preliminaries to the main event).
		It's the same with the Loebner: OK, there are lots of less glamorous projects in AI which in some ways probably deserve attention more than the creation of chatterbots.
	www.consciousentities.com /loebner.htm (1040 words)

	Wired News: Think Fast, Clever Robot
		The Loebner Prize works very much like that 1950's television game show To Tell the Truth, in which celebrity panelists attempted to discover which of three people was the real fellow claiming to have done something extraordinary.
		In the Loebner contest, judges are presented with a bevy of chat terminals to type into.
		According to Wallace, the judges in the original test devised by Turing weren't told that they were trying to determine whether their chat partner was a robot or not, so they "weren't looking for a robot," he said.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,47548,00.html (645 words)

	UCLA Program on Medicine - Prometheus Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A corpus of $7,500,000[iv] would permanently endow these prizes, cover the foundation’s modest administrative requirements, and support an ongoing effort robust enough to generate the broad scientific involvement and popular prominence needed for the prizes to successfully catalyze progress towards clinical interventions to retard aging.
		Association with a prize most people will enthusiastically embrace and the media will regularly follow: As the number of milestone awards mounts, this prize will not only be the gauge of humanity’s progress toward transcending aging, it will be recognized as a key ingredient in that progress.
		Two typical prizes are the Sandoz Prize of $30,000 for fundamental contributions to biogerontology and the Ipsen Prize of $20,000 for contributions to human longevity.
	research.arc2.ucla.edu /pmts/agingprz.htm (3168 words)

	Press Release: A.L.I.C.E. Wins Loebner Prize Again! (A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation)
		Today A.L.I.C.E. was awarded the bronze Loebner Prize medal for the second year in a row, at the annual competition based on the Turing Test, this year held at the London Science Museum.
		The Loebner Prize is an annual competition that challenges computer programs to convince human judges that the computer programs are actually people.
		The Prize contest was established in 1990 by Dr. Hugh Loebner, a renowned philanthropist.
	alicebot.org /press_releases/2001/alice-loebner-2001.html (745 words)

	Loebner Prize Home Page
		Hugh Loebner agreed with The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies to underwrite a contest designed to implement the Turing Test.
		Loebner pledged a Grand Prize of $100,000 and a Gold Medal (pictured above) for the first computer whose responses were indistinguishable from a human's.
		Such a computer can be said "to think." Each year an annual prize of $2000 and a bronze medal is awarded to the most human-like computer.
	www.loebner.net /Prizef/loebner-prize.html (196 words)

	Artificial stupidity, Part 2: The Turing Test and AI
		Loebner denies that he meddles; he told me repeatedly that his only concern is that the contest be held and that he is happy to empower each contest committee with full authority.
		Finally I asked him about the Loebner Prize, and in particular, about Loebner's insistence that the competition be held every year, in the face of arguments from people like Shieber and Dennett that it be not be an annual thing.
		Hugh Loebner likes to compare himself to King Lear, "more sinned against than sinning." All he wanted to do was to give away a fortune in order to hasten the day when human toil would be abolished and people could devote their lives to pleasure, and look where it's gotten him.
	www.temple.edu /ispr/examples/ex03_02_27.html (5789 words)

	Loebner Prize Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1990 Hugh Loebner agreed with The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies to underwrite a contest designed to implement the Turing Test.
		Dr. Loebner pledged a Grand Prize of $100,000 for the first computer whose responses were indistinguishable from a human's.
		Further information on the development of the Loebner Prize and the reasons for its existence is available in Loebner's article In Response to the article Lessons from a Restricted Turing Test by Stuart Shieber.
	hps.elte.hu /~gk/Loebner/loebner.htm (206 words)

	AI Bush - Ella and the Loebner Prize Contest
		One of the purposes of the Loebner Prize is to promote the development of Artificial Intelligence as determined by the "Turing Test." Alan Turing first proposed an imitation game as a test for AI in the 1950's.
		More information about the Loebner Prize Contest, including results and transcripts over the years, may be found at Hugh Loebner's website.
		Information, photos, and results of the 2002 Loebner Prize Contest held in Atlanta, Georgia at the Georgia State University can be seen at the Loebner-Atlanta website.
	www.ellaz.com /GWB/Loebner.aspx (422 words)

	Loebner Prize
		The Loebner Prize is awarded annually to the designer of the computer programme that best succeeds in passing a variant of the Turing test.
		The prize challenges Artificial Intelligence (AI) gurus from all over the world to design a computer programme that can convince at least half the judging panel that it is human.
		The judging panel were Hugh Loebner, Doron Swade Assistant Director at the Science Museum, Professor Kevin Warwick Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, John Woodget from Intel and Lisa Jamieson a member of the public.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /home/loebner_prize.asp (344 words)

	Kymer Clarion Article
		The test required 4 human "confederates," 4 judges, 2 rooms, 12 computers, and Hugh Loebner himself overseeing the proceedings, from greeting the participants at the door to ensuring that the programs were started correctly, and everything in between.
		I had some time to think about it: there were seven rounds of testing, but each judge was needed for only four rounds; I had the first two rounds free to think things over.
		There were too many distractions on the painting- and photo-filled walls in Dr. Loebner's apartment, however, for me to spend much time overanalyzing things.
	www.maresdream.com /clarion/sep04/TuringTest.html (656 words)

	icogno - The Loebner Prize - Hugh Loebner - George 2005 - Bronze, Silver, Gold Medals
		The Loebner is a competition enacting the Turing Test.
		Founded by Hugh Loebner, it is an annual competition in which AI programs with a text chat interface attempt to fool of panel of judges that they are 'as human, or more human' than the real thing.
		The Loebner Prize 2005 event took place in New York on September 15th, and more information is available here.
	www.icogno.com /loebner_prize.html (153 words)

	Techdirt: Artificial Stupidity: The Saga Of Hugh Loebner
		Salon is running "part 1" of a story all about Hugh Loebner and his Loebner prize for artificial intelligence.
		What you might not know, unless you're much more involved with Loebner or the AI world, is some of the details about why many people previously involved in the contest can't stand him.
		Loebner came back with a press release saying that Minsky was co-sponsoring the Loebner Prize, since the only way to make him stop putting on the contest was to have someone win it.
	techdirt.com /articles/20030226/0043232.shtml (496 words)

	Mind Hacks: Jabberwacky wins Loebner prize again
		BBC News is reporting that AI researcher Rollo Carpenter has won the Loebner Prize for the second year in a row with Joan, a development of his Jabberwacky chatbot.
		The Loebner Prize is an annual event where various computer programs are subjected to the Turing Test - a test where judges have to work out if they are in a online chatroom with a human or a computer program.
		We reported on Carpenter's success last year, and this year's success is a tribute to the technology behind Jabberwacky, currently being developed by his company icogno.
	www.mindhacks.com /blog/2006/09/jabberwacky_wins_loe.html (231 words)

	Chatterbots, Tinymuds, and the Turing Test
		In 1991 Hugh Loebner started the Loebner Prize competition, offering a $100,000 prize to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted Turing test.
		In 1991, Dr. Hugh Loebner, the National Science Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation started the Loebner Prize Competition: an annual contest between computer programs to identify the most ``human'' programs, and eventually to award $100,000 to the program that first passes an unrestricted Turing test [Epstein 92].
		Because current programs are a long way from passing an unrestricted Turing test, the Loebner prize competition allows the programmer to restrict the discussion to a single domain.
	www.lazytd.com /lti/pub/aaai94.html (4165 words)

	UK wins the Loebner prize!
		On April 28th 1997 in New York the Annual Loebner Competition was won by a program called CONVERSE, entered by Intelligent Research Ltd. of London, and designed and largely written by members of the Natural Language Processing research group in the Computer Science Department of the University of Sheffield [1].
		The Loebner Prize Medal is awarded annually to the designer of the computer system that best succeeds in passing a variant of the Turing Test, in which human judges communicate with workstation and try to decide which of the systems is a program and which a person.
		So, the Loebner competition is not the real Turing test, but the modern misunderstood version, where you ARE asking, directly or indirectly, if the other entity is a machine.
	nlp.shef.ac.uk /research/cluk/OLD_CLUK/loebner.html (640 words)

	Jabberwacky wins Loebner prize with chatbots George and Joan at WRT: Writer Response Theory
		Jabberwacky, a chatbot system which learns continuously from its conversations with web users, has won a Loebner prize for the second year in a row.
		A competitor in the Loebner contest for simulated human conversation since 2002, the chatbot system has sported both incremental improvements and some recent dramatic facelifts.
		Last year, the Jabberwacky chatbot winner was George, a chatbot speech and voice-recognition enabled chatbot whose avatar goes beyond the Oddcast SitePal technology now common in online Pandorabots by displaying emotional body language to suit the topic and general mood.
	writerresponsetheory.org /wordpress/2006/09/21/jabberwacky-wins-loebner (409 words)

	The Turing Test Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hugh Loebner announced that the next (and last?) Loebner Prize will be in New York in September of 2004.
		Robby Garner, Robitron has also participated in the contest several times and is the winner of the 1998 and 1999 Loebner prizes.
		Chatterbots, Tinymuds, And The Turing Test: Entering The Loebner Prize Competition This paper describes the development of a program and its performance on the first three Loebner Prize competitions.
	cogsci.ucsd.edu /~asaygin/tt/ttest.html (1646 words)

	AI Newsletter
		In 1990 Hugh Loebner offered $100,000 and a neat gold medal to the first person to write a computer program that passed the Turing Test.
		Richard Wallace, one of the developers of A.L.I.C.E., which won the Loebner competition (not the prize, just the most human-like of the machine contestants), observes that the majority of casual human dialog is really just simple pattern-matching response.
		http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html - The home page for the Loebner Prize, which will be awarded to the first computer that can fool a panel of judges into thinking it is as human as humans also talking to the judges.
	www.ainewsletter.com /newsletters/aix_0307.htm (1598 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Brit's bot chats way to AI medal
		The competition is based on the Turing Test, which suggests computers could be seen as "intelligent" if their chat was indistinguishable from humans.
		George managed to convince the judges enough to earn himself the Hugh Loebner's Bronze Medal, and $3,000 (£1,660), which goes to the most convincing entrant.
		The gold medal and Grand Prize of $100,000 (£55,400), which goes to the bot that completely fools the judges, has remained unclaimed since the competition's inception in 1990.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/4263278.stm (556 words)

	BOINC and The Loebner Prize
		There are reports that a worm exists on 'AIM' which 'talks' to the user to persuade them to download a file of itself and then communicates to the users 'AIM' buddies in order to replicate itself.
		In this article, its author suggests that this worm is close to fulfilling the criteria for the Loebner Prize.
		For example; when the user starts to attaché to a project, it could ask the user, using the computers name, if they would like it to find the best project to attach to.
	boinc.berkeley.edu /dev/forum_thread.php?id=364 (1050 words)

	Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies: Computer Modeling of Verbal Behavior
		The winner of the first Loebner competition in 1991 was a program called PC Therapist III, written by Joseph Weintraub.
		His opinions, which he has posted on the web, are that the Loebner competition does not attract serious attention from the A.I. community, and that it does nothing to “push the envelope” of modern technology.
		Garner's systems that won the Loebner competition matched phrases they have seen in the past, and when new phrases were encountered, they were flagged for later refinement.
	www.behavior.org /computer-modeling/stephens/stephens2.cfm (2403 words)

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		An annual competition in artificial intelligence started by Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner of New York City in 1991.
		A $100,000 prize is offered to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted Turing test.
		Annual competitions are held each year with a $2000 prize for the best program on a restricted Turing test.
	www.lots-a-bots.com /glloebner.do (184 words)

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