For the Loebner Prize, originally, $2,000 was awarded for the most human-seeming chatterbot in the competition. The prize was $3,000 in 2005 and $2,250 in 2006. In 2008, $3,000 was awarded.
In addition, there are two one-time-only prizes that have never been awarded. $25,000 is offered for the first chatterbot that judges cannot distinguish from a real human and which can convince judges that the human is the computer program. $100,000 is the reward for the first chatterbot that judges cannot distinguish from a real human in a Turing test that includes deciphering and understanding text, visual, and auditory input. Once this is achieved, the annual competition will end.
In 2006, the contest was organised by Tim Child (CEO of Televirtual) and Huma Shah. On August 30, the four finalists were announced:
• Rollo Carpenter
• Richard Churchill and Marie-Claire Jenkins
• Noah Duncan
• Robert Medeksza
The contest was held on 17 September in the VR theatre, Torrington Place campus of University College London. The judges included the University of Reading's cybernetics professor, Kevin Warwick, a professor of artificial intelligence, John Barnden (specialist in metaphor research at the University of Birmingham), a barrister, Victoria Butler-Cole and a journalist, Graham Duncan-Rowe. The latter's experience of the event can be found in an article in Technology Review. The winner was 'Joan', based on Jabberwacky, both created by Rollo Carpenter.
The 2007 competition was held on 21 October in New York City. The judges were: Computer Science Professor Russ Abbott, Philosophy Professor Hartry Field, Psychology Assistant Professor Clayton Curtis and English lecturer Scott Hutchins.
No bot passed the Turing Test, but the judges ranked the three contestants as follows:
• 1st: Robert Medeksza from Zabaware, creator of Ultra Hal Assistant
• 2nd: Noah Duncan, a private entry, creator of Cletus
• 3rd: Rollo Carpenter from Icogno, creator of Jabberwacky
The winner received $2,250 and the annual medal. The runners-up received $250 each.
The 2008 competition was organised by Professor Kevin Warwick, coordinated by Huma Shah and held on 12 October at the University of Reading, UK. After testing by over one hundred judges during the preliminary phase, in June and July 2008, six finalists were selected from thirteen original entrants - artificial conversational entity (ACE). Five of those invited competed in the finals:
• Brother Jerome, Peter Cole and Benji Adams
• Elbot, Fred Roberts / Artificial Solutions
• Eugene Goostman, Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko and Sergey Ulasen
• Jabberwacky, Rollo Carpenter
• Ultra Hal, Robert Medeksza
In the finals, each of the judges was given five minutes to conduct simultaneous, split-screen conversations with two hidden entities. Elbot of Artificial Solutions won the 2008 Loebner Prize bronze award, for most human-like artificial conversational entity, through fooling three of the twelve judges who interrogated it (in the human-parallel comparisons) into believing it was human. This is coming very close to the 30% traditionally required to consider that a program has actually passed the Turing test. Eugene Goostman and Ultra Hal both deceived one judge each that it was the human.
Will Pavia, a journalist for The Times, has written about his experience; a Loebner finals' judge, he was deceived by Elbot and Eugene. Kevin Warwick and Huma Shah have reported on the parallel-paired Turing tests here.
The 2009 Loebner Prize Competition was held 6 September 2009 at the Brighton Centre, Brighton UK in conjunction with Interspeech 2009 conference. The prize amount for 2009 was USD 3000.
Entrants were David Levy, Rollo Carpenter, and Mohan Embar, who finished in that order.
The 2010 Loebner Prize Competition was held on October 23rd at California State University, Los Angeles. The 2010 competition was the 20th running of the contest.
Official list of winners.
1991 Joseph Weintraub - PC Therapist
1992 Joseph Weintraub - PC Therapist
1993 Joseph Weintraub - PC Therapist
1994 Thomas Whalen - TIPS
1995 Joseph Weintraub - PC Therapist
1996 Jason Hutchens - HeX
1997 David Levy - Converse
1998 Robby Garner - Albert One
1999 Robby Garner - Albert One
2000 Richard Wallace - Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (A.L.I.C.E.)
2001 Richard Wallace - Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (A.L.I.C.E.)
2002 Kevin Copple - Ella
2003 Juergen Pirner - Jabberwock
2004 Richard Wallace - Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (A.L.I.C.E.)
2005 Rollo Carpenter - George
2006 Rollo Carpenter - Joan
2007 Robert Medeksza - Ultra Hal
2008 Fred Roberts - Elbot
2009 David Levy - Do-Much-More
2010 Bruce Wilcox - Suzette
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