Loebner Prize: Turing Test Finals.
The Loebner Prize finals are taking place today [LINK]. This is a Turing Test competition. A double-blind test where humans converse with a mixture of humans and computers. The human test subjects then have to determine which are which. If a computer succeeds at fooling the human into thinking it’s human, it’s said to have passed the Turing Test.
Finalists are Alice, Brother Jerome, Elbot, Eugene Goostman, Jabberwacky and Ultra Hal
Chat with A.L.I.C.E. [LINK]
Chat with Brother Jerome [LINK]
Chat with Elbot [LINK]
Chat with Eugene Goostman [LINK]
Chat with Jabberwacky [LINK]
Chat with Ultra Hal [LINK]
I tried these and based on my brief interactions, I think the winner will be Brother Jerome but none will pass the test.
UPDATE: Nobody passed but the winner was "Elbot": [LINK]
Check out this Web 2.0 approach to chatbots: http://chatbotgame.com.
Just as Deep Blue brute-forced it in chess with speed, the idea behind the Chatbot Game is to brute-force it with a huge number of user-submitted Google-like chat rules.