Re: Article - Why the Loebner Prize Will Never Be Won...

Tom Breton wrote:
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> "Gorbag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > "Brownell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > http://www.powerofq.com/Q/loebnerarticle.htm
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> > Interesting, but presupposes the Loebner challengers will all be Eliza type
> > chatterbots.
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> Well, I'm not sure how you get that.  I didn't think the article
> assumed that.  It assumed that even a perfect chatterbot has a limited
> amount of world knowledge ("limited" as in "huge, but no match for a
> 6-yo kid").  It argued that a judge could easily expose any practical
> program's limited world knowledge.
> 

Well, I scoped out the rules for the Loebner prize last year, and 
they're not allowing anything that takes a while to respond or 
requires more than an average machine to run on.  These restrictions
militate against any "serious" competition to eliza style chatterbots
in the context of that contest. 

                                Bear