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Erwin van Lun on 18 May 2017 in Award News | by
Summary: The new chatbot contest 'ChatBottle' is very promising. In their very first year more than 2500 people voted!
Between January 9 to January 18 2017 more than 2500 people from 65 countries voted 5373 times for the best travel, productivity, social, e-commerce, entertainment, and news chatbots in the ChatBottle, a brand new Chatbot Challenge.
The community selected 7 the best chatbots for Facebook Messenger, Slack, Kik, Telegram and Skype.
So, the 1st ChatBottle Award goes to…
instalocate chatbot Instalocate - the best Travel chatbot
meekan chatbot Meekan - the best Productivity chatbot
foxsy chatbot Foxsy - the best Social chatbot
bff-trump-for-messenger chatbot BFF Trump - the best Entertainment chatbot
chatshopper-1 chatbot chatShopper - the best E-commerce chatbot
techcrunch chatbot TechCrunch - the best News chatbot
swelly chatbot Swelly - Editors’ Choice chatbot
There were 35 chatbot nominees including the following.
Travel: Instalocate (298 votes) , Kayak (256 votes) , Hipmunk (183 votes) , Skyscanner (137 votes) , Austrian Airlines bot (130 votes) , Mica, the Hipster Cat Bot (90 votes) , Marina Alterra (50 votes)
Productivity: Meekan (355 votes) , Pepper (274 votes) , Zoom (132 votes) , Statsbot (128 votes) , Yala (119 votes) , GrowthBot (52 votes)
Social: Foxsy (354 votes) , Swelly (326 votes) , Poncho (133 votes) , Sensay (71 votes) , Visabot (45 votes)
Entertainment: BFF Trump (265 votes) , Icon8 (120 votes) , Trivia Blast (103 votes) , And Chill (94 votes) , Streak Trivia (68 votes) , COD Messenger (65 votes)
E-commerce: chatShopper (332 votes) , H&M (173 votes) , RemitRadar (74 votes) , Burberry (73 votes) , 1-800-Flowers chatbot (59 votes) , Allset Bot (51 votes)
News: TechCrunch (331 votes) , CNN (228 votes) , Wall Street Journal (85 votes) , theScore (64 votes) , NewsBytes App (55 votes)
Chatbots.org wishes this new battle lots of success
Erwin van Lun on 9 May 2012 in Award News | by
Summary: 2012 Loebner Prize, the first #turing test will be webcasted live! #ai #singularity
The 2012 Loebner Prize contest will take place in Bletchley Park on Tuesday 15th May 2012 to mark Alan Turing’s centenary celebrations. The contest is being run by David Levy who won the prize in 1997 and 2009.
A team from the University of Exeter’s Computer Science department (Dr Ed Keedwell, Max Dupenois and Kent McClymont) will be running a webcast of the Loebner Prize and so, for the first time, interested people from around the world will be able to follow the conversations the judges have as they happen.
The URL will be http://loebner.exeter.ac.uk/2012contest/
Shaun Harkness on 15 Nov 2011 in Award News | by
Summary: MyCyberTwin Launches 'Turing Test Challenge’ for AI Developers
MyCyberTwin, a new generation of artificial intelligence technology, today announced the launch of its Turing Test Challenge. The contest gives developers the needed tools and instruction to leverage MyCybertwin’s AI Platform to build intelligent virtual agents (IVA’s) and compete head-to-head with other developer agents.
Wikipedia defines the ‘Turing Test’ as a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior. It was first introduced by Alan Turing in his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence highlighting the ability for machines to think.
“Developers love working with new technology platforms. They are constantly looking for state-of-the-art products and services they can perfect,” said Liesl Capper, CEO. “Thanks to the inspirational work by the likes of Alan Turing, and the recent launch of Siri, today artificial intelligence is ready for prime time and quickly be adopted by businesses. The ‘Turing Test Challenge’ allows developer to take advantage of MyCyberTwin’s AI solutions to build virtual agents to compete against other developers. Since creating this concept, the response we have already gotten is tremendous. We are extremely excited to see what happens when developers get their hands on our technology.”
Read more about: MyCyberTwin Launches ‘MyCyberTwin Turing Test Challenge’ for Developers
Wendell Cowart on 7 Apr 2011 in Award News | by
Summary: The winner of the 2011 Chatterbox Challenge is Bildgesmyte by Patti Roberts
The scores are all in and the decision of the winner is an unanimous one. The winner of the 2011 Chatterbox Challenge is:
Bildgesmythe by Patti Roberts
Second Place goes to Mitsuku by Stephen Worswick.
Third Place goes to Skynet AI by Ken Hurtubise
Bruce Wilcox on 3 Nov 2010 in Award News | by
Summary: Chatbot Suzette Fools One Judge During Loebner Prize Contest
My chatbot, Suzette, won this year’s Loebner Prize contest and even confused a judge into voting for her over a human (or should I say he confused himself). But here is the blow-by-blow of this weird event.
When I arrived at the contest, I figured I had good odds to win if nothing went horribly wrong. Yes, Suzette had easily qualified over the 3 other competitors (her score 11 pts, the nearest competitor 7.5). Her design and data naturally gave her an edge over her competitors on the human knowledge test questions of the qualifiers. But human judge chat was an entirely different matter than the qualification test. Still, I felt she could carry on a detailed conversation better than the others and should win.
Initial installation of the programs occurred on Friday. From prechat conversations with the other contestants I learned that A.L.I.C.E. came with 3 redundant disks. Yet all three turned out to be blank! What a scare that must have been. Dr Wallace managed to install by retrieving the program over the Internet. Cleverbot is now at 45 million lines of memorized user chat (at a rate of doubling every year). And UltraHal is now listening to tweets, so has 300K of user chat it learned and 400K of tweets it has accepted for learning (code decides if the user has had enough responses and doesn’t trigger any red flags).
Read more about: Chatbot Suzette Fools One Judge During Loebner Prize Contest
Erwin van Lun on 11 Oct 2010 in Award News | by
Summary: Open-hearted interview with Hugh Loebner, initiator of the very first Turing Test 20 years ago.
In this open-hearted interview, Hugh Loebner, initiator of the very first Turing Test 20 years ago, talks about how it all began, about the future of this competition, and about his personal involvement. He also talks about his renowned protocol which is generally regarded as quite annoying, and always a topic of discussion.
The video was shot during the last Loebner Prize Contest in Brighton last year. The 2010 Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence will be held on Saturday 23 October 2010 at California State University, Los Angeles, USA.
The 2010 competition will mark the 20th edition of this contest. See for more information:
https://www.chatbots.org/awards/loebner_prize/year_2010/
Ehab El-agizy on 16 Mar 2010 in Award News | by
Summary: The Chatterbox Challenge 2010 Contest Just Started!
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.
Read more about: The Chatterbox Challenge 2010 Contest Just Started!
Ehab El-agizy on 11 Jan 2010 in Award News | by
Summary: The Chatterbox Challenge (CBC) 2010 - The Ultimate Bot Contest
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.
Read more about: Launching the Chatterbox Challenge 2010 Contest
Erwin van Lun on 3 Nov 2009 in Award News | by
Summary: Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) From Negotiation Please, check for the most recent update of thi
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.
Read more about: Win 1500 Euro with the Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC)
Erwin van Lun on 14 Oct 2009 in Award News | by
Summary: Video report of Loebner Prize Contest 2009 in Brighton UK. Winner: David Levy's Do Much More, 2: Cleverbot
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.
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