Elbot
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Elbot is a chatterbot
created by Fred Roberts.
At the 18th Loebner Prize
for artificial intelligence
, held on the weekend of 11–12 October 2008, Elbot convinced three of the 12 human interrogators he was indistinguishable from human, beating the other contestants and taking the Bronze Prize.
If Elbot had convinced one other, it would have passed the 30% mark - the threshold set by Alan Turing
, who devised the Turing Test
in 1950 on which the Loebner Prize is based, for deciding whether a machine was capable of thinking like a human.
Chatterbot
A chatter robot, chatterbot, chatbot, or chat bot is a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods, primarily for engaging in small talk. The primary aim of such simulation has been to fool the user into thinking...
created by Fred Roberts.
At the 18th Loebner Prize
Loebner prize
The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition is that of a standard Turing test. In each round, a human judge simultaneously holds textual conversations...
for artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
, held on the weekend of 11–12 October 2008, Elbot convinced three of the 12 human interrogators he was indistinguishable from human, beating the other contestants and taking the Bronze Prize.
If Elbot had convinced one other, it would have passed the 30% mark - the threshold set by Alan Turing
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS , was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a...
, who devised the Turing Test
Turing test
The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour. In Turing's original illustrative example, a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with a human and a machine designed to generate performance indistinguishable from that of a human being. All...
in 1950 on which the Loebner Prize is based, for deciding whether a machine was capable of thinking like a human.
Conversation excerpt
Human interrogator vs Elbot, Loebner Prize, 12 October 2008:- [...]
- judge: What's your favourite novel?
- Elbot: I often read telephone books, or dadaist poetry: Brä brä brä brä brä.
- judge: Typical computer!
- Elbot: You tend towards generalizations. But I must admit, so do I. However, my generalizations are firmly grounded in statistical theory.
- judge: What do you think of KWKevin WarwickKevin Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom...
's enthusiasm for having machines take over the world? - Elbot: Fix it up a bit first. Then I'll take it over.
See also
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- List of Chatterbots
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- ELIZAELIZAELIZA is a computer program and an early example of primitive natural language processing. ELIZA operated by processing users' responses to scripts, the most famous of which was DOCTOR, a simulation of a Rogerian psychotherapist. Using almost no information about human thought or emotion, DOCTOR...
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