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ALICE victorious in AI challenge [Articles]
Developed since 1995 by Dr Richard Wallace of the ALICE AI Foundation, ALICE is a conversational robot; during the competition, judges typed questions at...
Artificial stupidity, Part 2 [Articles]
If Hugh Loebner’s contest is just hokum, and the Turing test has outlived its usefulness, why should we care about it or its various squabbling parti...
Chat program scoops the prize for being almost human [Articles]
Her name is Joan; she is just a few years old and very talkative... and now she is officially the world's most human computer program. On Sunday, th...
Chatty computer wins again [Articles]
A computer chat program called Alice has won the Loebner Prize for the second time. The program triumphed in the annual competition to find the computer w...
German chatty bot is 'most human' [Articles]
A German computer program has chatted its way to first place in the Loebner Prize for human-like communication. British hope, Jabberwacky, came joint th...
It's the thought that counts [Articles]
The Kubrick/Spielberg film AI provides just the latest example of the enduring notion that, one day, we'll build a machine capable of thinking independ...
Lessons from a Restricted Turing Test [Articles]
We report on the recent Loebner prize competition inspired by Turing's test of intelligent behavior. The presentation covers the structure of the compe...
Mitsuku wins 2019 Loebner Prize [Articles]
For the fourth consecutive year, Steve Worswick’s Mitsuku has won the Loebner Prize for the most humanlike chatbot entry to the contest. This is the ...
Notes on the Loebner Contest Grand Prize Rules [Articles]
This document was submitted as a position paper for the Human Computer Conversation workshop being held in conjunction with the January, 1998 Loebner Compe...
Rethinking the Turing Test [Articles]
At a competition in June, a chatbot named Eugene duped a group of human judges into believing it was a Ukrainian teenager. The judges hailed it as the firs...
Steve Worswick Interview - Loebner 2013 winner [Articles]
It's our annual Loebner Prize Interview, comprised of questions asked over the years by members of AiDreams. This year the competition was held in Derr...
Anna [Chatbots - English]
Anna is a chatbot designed to pass the Turing Test - having a human judge incapable of telling that the bot they are chatting to is not human. The most for...
Anna [Chatbots - English]
Anna is a chatbot designed to pass the Turing Test - having a human judge incapable of telling that the bot they are chatting to is not human. The most for...
Brian [Chatbots - English]
BRIAN is a computer program that thinks it is an 18 year old college student. It was written as an entry in the 1998 Loebner Competition, where it won t...
Sing for Fame [Chatbots - English]
Sing for Fame is a bot that hosts a singing competition.  Users can show their skills by singing their favorite songs.  If someone needs in...
The Chatterbox Challenge [Chatbots - English]
The Chatterbox Challenge (CBC) which began in 2001 is an annual contest for chatbots. It is unique in the fact that minimal restrictions are placed on the ...
Loebner Prize 2007 [Other]
Information and Transcripts of the Loebner Prize Competition
Rob Medeksza Interview [Other]
Loebner 2007 Winner - It's that time of year again, when after many monthsand even years of hard work, programmers finallyoffer their chatbots up forju...
FAROO - Free Web Search API [Tools]
Are your looking for an alternative to Google Web Search API (depreciated), Yahoo Boss (commercial) or Bing Web Search API (commercial)? Try our FREE Web S...
Ultra Hal chatbot alive and well in Second Life virtual world. [Video] Icon
Zabaware is the maker of the award winning Ultra Hal software, artificial intelligence technology that won the most human computer of the year in the 17th ...
Botwiki.org Monthly Bot Challenge [Websites]
Botwiki.org is a site for showcasing friendly, useful, artistic online bots, and our Monthly Bot Challenge is a recurring community event dedicated to maki...