A.I, Robot – Jabberwacky makes final four in Loebner contest
British contender Jabberwacky is one of only four chatbots in the finals of the Loebner Prize Contest for Artificial Intelligence (AI), on 19 September 2004 in New York.
The annual competition is getting tougher for even the chattiest of robots. This year, event sponsor Hugh Loebner has orchestrated a purer form of the Turing Test than ever before.
Jabberwacky’s creator, British competitor Rollo Carpenter, believes his AI chatbot technology, found at www.jabberwacky.com, is poised to meet the challenge.
Increasingly, visitors to the site become uncertain who or what they are talking to. “It seemed to come alive,” said one. “It is so real now, I thought I was receiving messages from other users,” and “I don't believe I was chatting with AI, sorry".
The Turing Test is passed if a judge cannot distinguish between computer and human following a text-based chat. For some, Jabberwacky clearly can pass.
Hugh Loebner is offering a $100,000 Gold Prize to the first non-human entity to pass a fully audio visual version of the test – a believable virtual person, on screen. That won’t happen for several years, but the competitors are now taking a step in the right direction beyond pure chat: they are simulating human typing, mistakes and all.
"Typing simulation is a small task compared to having something worthwhile to say, yet it has to be done right," says Rollo Carpenter. "Right for me, as with Jabberwacky itself, means that the behaviour has to be 100% learnt. It will even be learning from the judges during the competition."
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