The 10th annual contest just started in the 10th of January 2010, the dead line to enter the contest should ends by 15 March 2010. Many changes and surprises awaiting participants so good luck and enjoy a new experience.

You can now track Chatterbox Challenge events by joining its page on Facebook and Twitter.

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Preliminary Information on the Loebner Prize 2010 Competition
The 2010 Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence will be held on Saturday 23 October 2010 at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. The Loebner Prize communications protocol will be used in the contest.

The Loebner Prize is an instantiation of the Turing Test.  The 2010 competition will be the 20th running of the contest. 

A total of US$ 5000 will be awarded to the 4 finalists as follows:

First Prize: $3000 and the Bronze Annual Medal
Second Prize: $1000
Third Prize: $750
Fourth Prize: $250.
At risk will be the $25,000 Silver Medal Prize. .

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The 2K BotPrize Contest is a competition for video game bot programmers, based on the Turing Test.

The aim of the contest is to see if a computer game playing bot can play like a human. In the contest, bots try to convince a panel of expert judges that they are actually human players.
Computers are superbly fast and accurate at playing games, but can they be programmed to be more fun to play - to play like you and me? People like to play against opponents who are like themselves - opponents with personality, who can surprise, who sometimes make mistakes, yet don’t blindly make the same mistakes over and over. Can a computer be programmed to seem to have personality, fallibility and cunning?

The contest is sponsored by games developer 2K Australia.

For more details, see botprize.org.

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The second 2K BotPrize contest will be held in Milan, Italy, in September 2009, as part of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games.

The aim of the contest is to see if a computer game playing bot can play like a human.

As they did in 2008, Game Development Studio 2K Australia is offering a prize of A$7,000 cash plus a trip to their studio in Canberra for anyone who can create a bot to pass this “Turing Test for Bots”.

2009 finalists selected

The 5 finalists for the 2009 BotPrize contest have been decided. Qualifying trials took place at Edith Cowan University in Perth over 7,8 and 9 July, to select the best 5 bots from the 15 teams that entered this year.

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2008 BotPrize contest

The first BotPrize contest was held in Perth, on 17 December 2008, as part of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games. The aim of the contest was to see if a computer game playing bot could convince a panel of expert judges that it was actually a human player.

The Judging Panel

• David Fogel - President of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• Robert (RJ) Spencer - COO of Interzone Entertainment
• Penny Sweetser - senior game designer at 2K Australia and an AI expert
• Cam Atkinson - a l33t game player
• John Wiese - senior project manager in Special Operations Command Support Systems at Thales Australia

The Humans

• Andrew Smith
• Roderick Baker
• Byron Pogson
• Keith Johnson
• Seb Davidson

More details on BotPrize.org

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Terasem Movement, Inc. is a 501c3 not-for-profit charity endowed for the purpose of educating the public on the practicality and necessity of greatly extending human life, consistent with diversity and unity, via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness, concentrating in particular on facilitating revivals from biostasis. The Movement focuses on preserving, evoking, reviving and downloading human consciousness.

Terasem accomplishes its objectives by convening publicly accessible symposia, publishing explanatory analyses, conducting demonstration projects, issuing grants and encouraging public belief in a positive technologically-based future.

Terasem Movement was formed in 2002. A sister organization, the Terasem Movement Foundation, was formed in 2004.

The founders of Terasem are concerned that the potential of nanotechnology and cyberconsciousness for relieving human suffering and extending human life will be truncated due to unwarranted fears and concerns. They are also concerned, however, that nanotechnology and cyberconsciousness could be made available only to an elite, or in a manner that creates class divisions within society. The founders believe that nanotechnology and cyberconsciousness needs to be developed consistently with full respect for diversity and unity so that the potential for greatly extending human life and relieving human suffering can be realized.

The Terasem Movement is funded with an endowment from its founders. Terasem does not seek or solicit outside financial contributions. It is managed by the founders based on advice from experts in the fields of nanotechnology and cyberconsciousness.

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The contest will award on December 10th 2009 at the annual Terasem Colloquium in Second Life.

To enter, email the CyBeRev mindfile screenname to mail@terasemcentral.org no later than 11:59PM EST on November 15. One entry per person.

The entrants will be evaluated by a panel of judges beginning on November 16th 2009. The identity and number of judges is at the sole discretion of Terasem. Odds of winning depend on the number of entries received.

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Terasem General Contest Rules and Restrictions
The following general contest rules, and specific Terasem Turing Prize (Contest) and Monthly CyBeRev Contest rules, are available upon written request to the contest sponsor:

  Terasem Movement, Inc.
  Contests
  P.O. Box 372869
  Satellite Beach, FL 32937

Winner(s) must comply with all of the rules of the Contest, including, but not limited to, any restrictions on age and residency, and have not committed any fraud or deception in entering the Contest or claiming the Prize(s).

PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE PERSON NAMED ON THE CyBeRev ACCCOUNT AND WILL BE MAILED TO THE ADDRESS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT ACCOUNT. PLEASE BE SURE YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION IS UP TO DATE.

In consideration of the receipt of a Prize, the winner(s) agrees to be solely responsible for any and all taxes and other fees, including, but not limited to, any federal state or local income taxes, that are or may become payable as a result of my participation in the Contest and receipt of the Prize(s).

The winner(s) further agrees to allow Terasem and its designees the right to use his name, likeness, portrait, recorded voice and biographical material for an unlimited period of time in order to advertise, promote or publicize the Contest and the CyBeRev website.

The winner(s) must expressly release Terasem, and any sponsors of the contest, and their respective officers, directors, agents, parent companies, subsidiaries and employees, from any and all claims, demands and/or causes of action of any nature or kind whatsoever, whether presently known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, that he/she may have, or that they subsequently acquire, as a result of my participation in the contest and/or receipt of the prize.

Terasem does not guarantee access to or the availability of the contest website and is not responsible for system failure or other inability of entrants to access and develop their mindfiles on the CyBeRev website.

Employees of Terasem Movement, Inc., their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, vendors and their immediate family members and those living in the same household of each are not eligible.

By submitting an entry in the Contest, the entrant represents that he/she is not an employee or agent of Terasem or any sponsor of the Contest and is not a member of the same household of any such employee or agent.

No Purchase Necessary - Void where prohibited.

All federal, state and local taxes apply and are the sole responsibility of the winner(s).

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An annual Terasem Turing Prize contest for the best CyBeRev mindfile of an individual, dead or alive, determined by the mindfile’s ability to converse naturally with the judges.

The contest will award $4,000 in prize money   annually on December 10th at the annual Terasem Colloquium in Second Life as follows:

• 1 Grand prize of $2,000
• 1 second place prize of $1,000
• 2 third place prizes of $500

The contest will be open to anyone over the age of 12 as of the date of entry, except employees of Terasem, their immediate families and those living in the same household. One entry per person.
   
The entrants will be evaluated by a panel of judges. The identity and number of judges is at the sole discretion of Terasem.  Odds of winning depend on the number of entries received.

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Loebner Prize 1992

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