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• Chatbot Suzette, Bruce Wilcox | Virtual Assistant Suzette | Virtual agent Suzette | Chat bot Suzette | Conversational agent Suzette | (4514)

  skwilcox writes "From Wikipedia: '[0]The Loebner Prize is an annualcompetition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to thechatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The formatof the competition is that of a standard Turing test. A human judge posestext questions to a computer program and a human being via computer.Based upon the answers, the judge must decide which is which.' Mychatbot, [1]Suzette, won this year's Loebner and even confused a judgeinto voting for her over a human (or should I say he confused himself).Here is the blow-by-blow of this weird event." Read on below for therest; this sounds like it would have been a fun competition to watch.
  This story continues at:       https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/24/1754216/Chatbot-Suzette-Wins-20th-Annual-Loebner-Prize-Fools-One-Judge?from=newsletter
  Discuss this story at:   http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/24/1754216&from=newsletter
  Links:   0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebner_Prize   1. http://www.chatbots.org/chatbot/suzette/

  tags: technology

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