Loebner Prize

artificial intelligence An annual competition in artificialintelligence started by Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner

[email protected] of New York City in 1991. A $100,000 prize

is offered to the author of the first computer program to pass

an unrestricted Turing test. Annual competitions are held

each year with a $2000 prize for the best program on a

restricted Turing test.

Sponsors of previous competitions include: Apple Computer,

Computerland, Crown Industries, GDE Systems, IBM Personal

Computer Company's Center for Natural Computing, Greenwich

Capital Markets, Motorola, the National ScienceFoundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Weingart

Foundation.

The 1995 and 1996 events were unrestricted Turing Tests,

requiring computer entries to converse indefinitely with no

topic restrictions. So far, even the best programs give

themselves away almost immediately, either by simple

grammatical mistakes or by repetition.

Complete transcripts and IBM compatible diskettes that play

the 1991, 1992, and 1993 conversations in real-time are

available for purchase from the Cambridge Center for

Behavioral Studies (telephone: [phone], Fax: 1072).

Sponsorship opportunities are available.

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Dr. Hugh G. Loebner [email protected]

Prize Donor

Telephone: [phone] (fax 7536).

(1999-06-29)