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I’m glad to announce the beginning of CBC 2010 contest, good luck for all botmasters and thanks for participating. This year is full of surprises for botmasters and their chatbots.

I’m glad to announce the beginning of CBC 2010 contest, good luck for all botmasters and thanks for participating.

The Chatterbox Challenge (CBC) is an annual contest which starts in mid March that allow any chatbot developer to participate and evaluate the intelligence of the chatbot through turing tests and much more. It is a really fun, simple and inclusive way for all children to practise their speech and language skills, it will be also interesting and amazing for anyone who wants to chat with the best chatbots.

The Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) advances the development of intelligent agents with autonomous negotiation skills. The competition will be held in spring 2010, with the finals being run during the AAMAS 2010 conference. The reward for the winner of the competition is €1500.

Ever wondered how the Loebner Prize Contest -the ‘First Turing Test’- actually takes place? Well, find out for yourself, this is a video report I’ve shot in Brighton, United Kingdom, on Sunday Morning Sept 6th, 2009:

Details after the break.

Congratulations to David Levy, winner of the Loebner Prize 2009 for “most human computer”. The contest was held September 6, 2009 in Brighton, UK.

This year the contest drew only three finalists. In addition to Mr. Levy’s program, the competitors included previous (two-time) Loebner winner Rollo Carpenter and newcomer Mohan Embar.

The Chatterbox Challenge (CBC) 2009 is an online bot contest held every year since 2001.  This year was different, every bot showed great skills during the contest and the finalists were even closer at score! Jeeney AI managed to pull the “Best Overall Bot in 2009” title.

Rollo Carpenter and David Burden have braved BCS’s Machine Intelligence competition in the past. Details now in for this year’s competition:

8th British Computer Society Machine Intelligence Competition

Wednesday December 16th 2009 at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK, during the annual SGAI conference AI-2009

Closing Date for Entries: October 1st 2009