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Loebner Contest makes Turing Roll in his Grave
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Pointers Gone Wild
I got up early this morning to watch a live streaming of the Loebner Prize contest, a formal enactment of a Turing test where human judges must hold chat conversations with humans and chat bots simultaneously, and try to determine which one is the human and which one is the bot. Conversations between one judge, one human and one bot were divided into panels of four unlabeled windows where characters appeared as they were being typed, making it difficult at first glance to see what part of which conversation was happening where. Most couldn't answer any questions from the judges, to the point where some judges decided to simply ignore the bots.