Weekend of the Loebner Prize Competition
Loebner Prize Gold Medal
Since today is October 12th, 2008, this must be the weekend of the Loebner Prize Competition. I think I’ll stroll over to their website and see what is on tap today …..
Robert Medeksza (1st place in 2007, 2nd in 2006) with Ultra Hal and Rollo Carpenter (3rd place runner up from 2007, 1st place in 2006) with Jabberwacky are again finalists this year. However, I see that Noah Duncan (2nd place in 2007 and 3rd place in 2006) did not appear in the finals this year–not sure if he applied or not.
I don’t see anything that has yet been posted concerning results…. I’ll check back tomorrow.
In the meantime, if you want to check out the site for yourself, you can find it at: Loebner Prize. If you are not familiar with the Loebner Prize or contest, the site offers a good amount of detail. Essentially, the Loebner Competition is a contest based on the Turing Test–whether a judge can tell the difference between a human and a computer in a typed (”online”) conversation.
-Stu
Sunday, October 12th, 2008