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My Loebner Prize Contest 2011 Reflections

(This post is written a year after the fact, but better late then never.) After the disappointment of being disqualified from the 2010 Loebner Prize Competition due to a bug in my implementation of the Loebner Prize Protocol, I took …

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My Loebner Prize Contest 2010 Reflections

No Go Chip didn’t get past the screening round of the 2010 Loebner Prize Competition. I figured that I could spare myself a trip to New York that year since Chip had successfully made it through the screening round in …

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My Loebner Prize Contest 2009 Reflections

Introduction It’s been over three years since I updated chipvivant.com, so these reflections are a couple of years old. Since Chip is a Loebner Prize 2011 finalist, I figured I better freshen up this site because I anticipate increased traffic. …

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My Loebner Prize Contest 2008 Reflections

Congratulations! Congratulations to the Loebner Prize Contest (hereafter LPC) 2008 entrants who made it through to the finals and also to those (including Chip) who didn’t. Now that the dust has settled, I wanted to relate my experience in creating …

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www.guardian.co.uk: Alan Turing’s legacy: how close are we to ‘thinking’ machines?

I was interviewed for this article: Alan Turing’s legacy: how close are we to ‘thinking’ machines? Here’s the full text of the email interview I submitted for this article: How long did you spend on Chip Vivant? With the exception …

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Motivations and Functionality

This section was originally written in May 2008. For posterity, I’ll add updates to this page every now and then rather than reworking it completely. In one sentence… A chatbot shouldn’t be considered “human” if it is incapable of answering …

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