Chatterbox Challenge 2010

In its 10th year, in the 60th anniversary of Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 'can a machine think?' game Chatterbox Challenge launches its 2010 contest.

Alternative to the Loebner Prize, the Chatterbox Challenge galvanises:

Botmasters

- Improves your skills in building your bot.

- Benchmarks your bot intelligence for free.

- Makes your bot win prizes based on his intelligence and personality.

- Gets your bot more popular and reviewed by visitors.

Visitors

- Gives you the opportunity to judge and review chatbots.

- Helps you to vote for the best chatbot.

- Shows the latest and the most innovative techniques in Artificial Intelligence.

- Is a good reason to start building your own bot.

Sponsors

- Shows you new innovative techniques to run your business.

- Helps you to get in touch with the world wide talents.

- Makes you more popular with a higher page rank.

- Gets you associated with innovative industry for present and future.

Developers can enter their artificial conversational entities - ACE here. Chatterbox Challenge history can be viewed here.

Judges wishing to assess systems (between March and May) can contact the Organiser here.

Can a machine think? Report on the Turing tests in Loebner Prize 2008

How Loebner 2008 Prize judges determined that the artificial agents were not thinking (in the human sense) included:

1. ...the ACE did not make spelling mistakes in contrast to the hidden-humans ... this is a "fairly key signifier of human-ness"

2. ... 'speed of response' and 'length of utterance': If an entity replied very quickly with a long sentence, or asked a question in response to a question, it was more likely to be a machine; whereas if a discussion developed with a hidden entity answering ... questions, then they were likely to be human.

Another judge correctly identified the gender of hidden-humans, against whom the artificial conversational agents were compared:

.. male as "less conversational (short answers, to the point)" and female hidden-humans as "quite happy to tell me a lot about themselves and their life".

From the organisers' report on Loebner Prize 2008, with ACE finalist's average scores here.