Bruce Wilcox Wins the Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence
TelltaleGames
Former Telltale Staff
Telltale Games' very own core tech programming whiz Bruce Wilcox has just won the 2010 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence! Now you're probably wondering what the Loebner Prize is right?
The Loebner Prize is an annual contest that rewards the chatbot that the competition's four judges deem to be the most 'human-like'. The 'human-like' determination is made by a judge concurrently posing questions, by computer input, to a chatbot and a human and seeing if the judge can distinguish the AI's answers (called a Turing test). If the judge can't tell which respondent is the human, the chatbot passes the Turing test. Every year since 1991, the chatbot that is most convincingly 'human-like' wins the prize. Phew - that was a mouthful![readmore] You can read more about the Loebner Prize on the official home page!
Anyway, Bruce's chatbot Suzette successfully fooled one of the four human judges at this year's competition, which took place at Cal State University, Los Angeles this past Sunday. That's very exciting news, especially as that kind of technology is being implemented into some of Telltale's future work.
You can actually test Suzette out now by visiting chatbots.org. Just click the 'Chat Now' link, enter a name for her to address you by, and away you go! AiDreams also interviewed Bruce, so you can get a little more background on this past weekend's events there!
Congratulations Bruce!