TURING TEST

The Turing Test is a behavioral approach to determining whether or not a system is intelligent. It was orginally proposed by mathematican Alan Turing, one of the founding figures in computing. Turing argued in a 1950 paper that conversation was the key to judging intelligence. In the Turing Test, a judge has conversations with two systems, one human, the other machine. The conversations can be about anything, and proceed for a set period of time. If, at the end of this time, the judge can not distinguish the machine from the human on the basis of the conversation, Turing argued that we would have to say that the machine was intelligent.

THE LOEBNER PRIZE CONTEST

The Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence was established in 1990 by Hugh Loebner The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
The Loebner Prize Medal and a cash award is awarded annually to the designer of the program that best succeeds in passing the Turing Test.

ELIZA
Until the Loebner Prize, the most famous program aimed at Turing Test conditions was the Aliza imitation psychiatrist, written by Joe Weizenbaum.

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 3rd place out of six entries.

ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is a natural language interface to a telerobotic eye. Alice has alrady influenced some events in the real world by telling lies and spreading gossip. It is the winner of 2000 and 2001 Loebner Prize.

MEBOT is a 'welcome bot' experiment, but MEBOT isn't meant to represent a company, it thinks it's Chris Holden, the auther of MEBOT

Fell free to chat with the Turing Test programs above and just try to have natural conversation.