3 of 12 Judges Thought “Elbot” was Human
We’re getting very close to the day where a computer can converse like a human effectively.
From Top Tech News:
He’s not HAL, but Elbot the computer program came closest to chatting like a human, fooling three of 12 texting judges at the Loebner Prize competition. That’s not enough to pass the Turing test, but machines are getting closer to having intelligent conversations with humans. Elbot was written by Fred Roberts of Germany.
Alan Turing said in the 1950’s that he figured in the year 2000 a computer would be able to fool 30% of judges during a Turing Test that lasts 5 minutes. Considering that the Elbot fooled 25% of judges in 2008, his prediction wasn’t too far off.
Can your computer fool you into thinking it’s human? Mine can’t. I fear the day that it can. That’s when I’ll need to stop blogging and start arguing with my computer instead.
Good stuff.
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
amichail
Check out this Web 2.0 approach to chatbots: http://chatbotgame.com.
Just as Deep Blue brute-forced it in chess with speed, the idea behind the Chatbot Game is to brute-force it with a huge number of user-submitted Google-like chat rules.
Oct 14th, 2008
lukemeister
nice link, that chatbot is pretty cool
Oct 14th, 2008
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