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In 2010 the rules changed - 25 minutes instead of 5. I will not edit the article because I'm not native english speaker/writer, so if anybody... The info is confirmed on the official Loebner Price webpage -- Ravyr 22:11, 09 February 2011 (UTC)
This article could really use fleshing out with descriptions of the state of the art and progress over the years. Since judges do occassionally get fooled here, there is a case that the Turing Test has been passed by some systems, which is significant to the debate about Strong AI -- Jaibe 20:39, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Although it has been traditional to state the requirements for the $25,000 prize (and by extension the $100,000 prize) as being merely to convince judges that a computer is a human, the structure of the competition makes this a misleadingly incomplete requirement. The judge knows that one entity is a computer and the other a human. Therefore in order to declare the computer to be the human the judge must also declare the human to be the computer. Stating this implicit requirement explicitly gives a clearer picture of what contestants in the competition are really up against, and raises the important question as to whether the competition can be won even in principle. This second requirement obviously being the harder of the two, leaving that requirement implicit misleads by omission. It also suggests that the Loebner Prize is not for passing the Turing Test but rather the very much harder Loebner Test. Vaughan Pratt 19:14, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
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I removed "First Turing Test" because (see Jaibe's comments above) others have run what claim to be Turing tests, so this gets into complicated arguments over definitions. At the least, it would need attribution. Also, clarified that the contest decides among chatterbots entered in the competition, not all those in the world--for the latter, the organizers would have to actively recruit as many bots as possible, not just call for entries. Vicki Rosenzweig 01:03, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
In the test one member of the jury uses one computer screen and one keyboard. There is one person (or program) on the other side to which the judge poses questions and the other side responses. So, there is no 2 screens at the same time for asking two competitors! (anyone can check the test conditions at the official homepage). Misibacsi 08:08, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
You are wrong, in the 2006 Prize at least, there were two boxes, left-hand & right-hand to each screen available to judges. Each side was linked, through Loebner's communication protocol, to an entity. Hence the machine was paired with a human - judge deciding which was which. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.133.54 ( talk) 15:07, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
The contests since 2006 have have presented the judges with two identical screens, one controlled by a human, the other by a computer. In this respect the contest fully complies with Turing's description. Loebner ( talk) 19:09, 2 December 2009 (UTC)User:Loebner
I don't understand how anyone can be fooled. I've tried using Alice, elbot, etc. and they are all stunningly not human. Simple questions like "How fast is a train?" fool them all. Someone please explain how anyone could be fooled. Were the judges not allowed to choose the questions? 155.198.65.29 ( talk) 13:08, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Interacting with a system in isolation is not the same as textually engaging two unseen / unheard entities and using their responses to determine which is human and which is machine. Judges could ask whatever they wanted. See the BBC news video clip here: [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Filosofee ( talk • contribs) 10:47, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
also, the web-versions are simplified versions of the corresponding bot. 85.149.120.16 ( talk) 23:52, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
The automatic link to "Thomas Whalen", winner of the 1994 Lobener Prize Competition is directed to the wrong page. Thomas Whalen, the researcher who won the competition is not the same Thomas Whalen who was mayor of Albany. The Loebner Prize Winner does not have an entry in Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.92.60.20 ( talk) 14:38, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Following links on the Web, I found the Loebner Prize website. I downloaded the player and the scripts for the 2009 event. I played all the scripts and read all of the conversations of all three judges with all of the contestants. Then I examined the reported score sheet.
None of the programs responded in a human way for more than a sentence or two at a time. All of them attempted to control the conversation instead of giving answers one would expect from a human. All of them made errors in which they repeated words that had been used by the judge in ungrammatical ways. In fact, one of the programs stated its age as a bit over one year, which, while undoubtedly true, is not what a human would say. That same program elsewhere suggested a "help" question, and, when the judge asked the question, responded with a lengthy list of all of its specific capabilities (such as items like "I can answer the question 'what is two plus five'")!
All of the humans responded in a completely human way, chatting with context and intelligence about subjects ranging from speech processing to rock and roll music.
Although my evaluation of the score sheet was hampered by ambiguity in the terse headings of the spreadsheet-like results, it appeared to be full of errors. It reported zero (0) success for every judge for every contestant. Even though it separately reported that all combinations of contestants and judges resulted in correct evaluations on the part of the judges, it nevertheless apparently picked a winner from among the submitted programs.
I believe it already happened. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.49.232.252 ( talk) 23:59, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure Computer Science Professor Russ Abbott who judged the 2007 contest will be familiar to fans of Miss Funnyfanny and other characters brought to life by English musician, comedian and actor Russ Abbot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.158.25.77 ( talk) 17:37, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
The 2016 prize was won on 2016-09-17 by Steve Worswick's Mitsuku. I am pretty sure that as usual the winner did not persuade any of the judges that it was human. I have not added this information to the article because the source of my information is that I happened to be present when it was awarded, and that would be original research. I'm including it here because it may (1) be useful to someone and/or (2) provoke someone into adding it to the article once a reliable source is available. Gareth McCaughan ( talk) 11:03, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
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In 2010 the rules changed - 25 minutes instead of 5. I will not edit the article because I'm not native english speaker/writer, so if anybody... The info is confirmed on the official Loebner Price webpage -- Ravyr 22:11, 09 February 2011 (UTC)
This article could really use fleshing out with descriptions of the state of the art and progress over the years. Since judges do occassionally get fooled here, there is a case that the Turing Test has been passed by some systems, which is significant to the debate about Strong AI -- Jaibe 20:39, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Although it has been traditional to state the requirements for the $25,000 prize (and by extension the $100,000 prize) as being merely to convince judges that a computer is a human, the structure of the competition makes this a misleadingly incomplete requirement. The judge knows that one entity is a computer and the other a human. Therefore in order to declare the computer to be the human the judge must also declare the human to be the computer. Stating this implicit requirement explicitly gives a clearer picture of what contestants in the competition are really up against, and raises the important question as to whether the competition can be won even in principle. This second requirement obviously being the harder of the two, leaving that requirement implicit misleads by omission. It also suggests that the Loebner Prize is not for passing the Turing Test but rather the very much harder Loebner Test. Vaughan Pratt 19:14, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
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I removed "First Turing Test" because (see Jaibe's comments above) others have run what claim to be Turing tests, so this gets into complicated arguments over definitions. At the least, it would need attribution. Also, clarified that the contest decides among chatterbots entered in the competition, not all those in the world--for the latter, the organizers would have to actively recruit as many bots as possible, not just call for entries. Vicki Rosenzweig 01:03, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
In the test one member of the jury uses one computer screen and one keyboard. There is one person (or program) on the other side to which the judge poses questions and the other side responses. So, there is no 2 screens at the same time for asking two competitors! (anyone can check the test conditions at the official homepage). Misibacsi 08:08, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
You are wrong, in the 2006 Prize at least, there were two boxes, left-hand & right-hand to each screen available to judges. Each side was linked, through Loebner's communication protocol, to an entity. Hence the machine was paired with a human - judge deciding which was which. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.133.54 ( talk) 15:07, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
The contests since 2006 have have presented the judges with two identical screens, one controlled by a human, the other by a computer. In this respect the contest fully complies with Turing's description. Loebner ( talk) 19:09, 2 December 2009 (UTC)User:Loebner
I don't understand how anyone can be fooled. I've tried using Alice, elbot, etc. and they are all stunningly not human. Simple questions like "How fast is a train?" fool them all. Someone please explain how anyone could be fooled. Were the judges not allowed to choose the questions? 155.198.65.29 ( talk) 13:08, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Interacting with a system in isolation is not the same as textually engaging two unseen / unheard entities and using their responses to determine which is human and which is machine. Judges could ask whatever they wanted. See the BBC news video clip here: [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Filosofee ( talk • contribs) 10:47, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
also, the web-versions are simplified versions of the corresponding bot. 85.149.120.16 ( talk) 23:52, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
The automatic link to "Thomas Whalen", winner of the 1994 Lobener Prize Competition is directed to the wrong page. Thomas Whalen, the researcher who won the competition is not the same Thomas Whalen who was mayor of Albany. The Loebner Prize Winner does not have an entry in Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.92.60.20 ( talk) 14:38, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Following links on the Web, I found the Loebner Prize website. I downloaded the player and the scripts for the 2009 event. I played all the scripts and read all of the conversations of all three judges with all of the contestants. Then I examined the reported score sheet.
None of the programs responded in a human way for more than a sentence or two at a time. All of them attempted to control the conversation instead of giving answers one would expect from a human. All of them made errors in which they repeated words that had been used by the judge in ungrammatical ways. In fact, one of the programs stated its age as a bit over one year, which, while undoubtedly true, is not what a human would say. That same program elsewhere suggested a "help" question, and, when the judge asked the question, responded with a lengthy list of all of its specific capabilities (such as items like "I can answer the question 'what is two plus five'")!
All of the humans responded in a completely human way, chatting with context and intelligence about subjects ranging from speech processing to rock and roll music.
Although my evaluation of the score sheet was hampered by ambiguity in the terse headings of the spreadsheet-like results, it appeared to be full of errors. It reported zero (0) success for every judge for every contestant. Even though it separately reported that all combinations of contestants and judges resulted in correct evaluations on the part of the judges, it nevertheless apparently picked a winner from among the submitted programs.
I believe it already happened. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.49.232.252 ( talk) 23:59, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure Computer Science Professor Russ Abbott who judged the 2007 contest will be familiar to fans of Miss Funnyfanny and other characters brought to life by English musician, comedian and actor Russ Abbot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.158.25.77 ( talk) 17:37, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
The 2016 prize was won on 2016-09-17 by Steve Worswick's Mitsuku. I am pretty sure that as usual the winner did not persuade any of the judges that it was human. I have not added this information to the article because the source of my information is that I happened to be present when it was awarded, and that would be original research. I'm including it here because it may (1) be useful to someone and/or (2) provoke someone into adding it to the article once a reliable source is available. Gareth McCaughan ( talk) 11:03, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
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