Podcasts about Loebner Prize

Episode: 2904 Chatterbots and the Turing Test.  Today, we chat.

In this episode, Lloyd discusses the Turing Test and the challenges surrounding the classification and identification of machine intelligence. Episode Guide: 0:36 - Intro to the Turing Test 3:03 - The Imitation Game 5:21 - ELIZA & PARRY 7:51 - The Chinese Room 9:40 - Loebner Prize 11:25 - Challenges & Artificial Stupidity 13:29 - Alternate Formulations 15:46 - Predictions More Info: Visit us at aiexperience.org Brought to you by ICED(AI) Host - Lloyd Danzig

Can you tell the difference between a human and a computer algorithm? It might be harder than you think! The Imitation Game (2014): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/ Eliza: https://www.eclecticenergies.com/ego/eliza A short documentary about Eliza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMK9AphfLco Mitsuku: https://www.pandorabots.com/mitsuku/ About the Loebner Prize: https://www.aisb.org.uk/events/loebner-prize Theme music is "Levitation" by Mabeha. Listen to the track here: https://open.spotify.com/track/0YS8xR9oPMtUvQj3C4wKHZ?si=TUp5hKerTEm-SpkYnyDtiQ

Happy Pi-cast! Andy and Dave discuss some of the stories that have followed the New York Times articles on Clearview AI, to include Twitter telling the company to stop using its photos, and a consortium of 40 agencies calls on the U.S. government to ban facial recognition systems until more is known about the technology. Meanwhile, London’s Metropolitan Police is rolling out live facial recognition technology. BlueDot says that it used AI and its epidemiologists to send a warning about the Wuhan virus on 31 December 2019, a full week before the US CDC announcement on 6 January 2020. Google releases the largest high-resolution map of the fruit fly’s brain, with 25,000 neurons. DARPA’s Gremlin (X-61A) drone system makes its first test flight. And the Guinness Book of World Records recognizes Stephen Worswick as the most frequent winner (5 times) of the Loebner Prize, for his Mitsuku chatbot. In research, Facebook AI achieves near-perfect (99.9%) navigation without needing a map, testing its algorithm in its AI Habitat. Robert J. Marks makes The Case *for* Killer Robots. The Brookings Institute’s Indermit Gill predicts that the AI leader in 2030 will “rule the planet” until at least 2100. The ACT-IAC releases an AI Playbook, with step-by-step guidance for assessment, readiness, selection, implementation, and integration. Jessica Flack examines the Collective Computation of Reality in Nature and Society. Google’s Dataset Search is out of beta. And DoD will be holding its East Coast AI Symposium and Exposition 29 and 30 April in Crystal City. Click here to visit our website and explore the links mentioned in the episode.   

Can a computer convince Matt and Scott that it's a human? What should a fantasy author know before writing his or her tale? Can you be 100% certain about something and still be wrong? Matt and Scott investigate these cognitively salubrious quandaries in the fourth installment of their quirkily euphonious podcast. Bibliography & Additional Resources The Turing Test The Imitation Game (2014): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/ Eliza: https://www.eclecticenergies.com/ego/eliza A short documentary about Eliza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMK9AphfLco Mitsuku: https://www.pandorabots.com/mitsuku/ About the Loebner Prize: https://www.aisb.org.uk/events/loebner-prize Sanderson's Laws Sanderson himself explains his laws: https://brandonsanderson.com/sandersons-first-law/ Hello Future Me explains his take on hard magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJQb5bGu_g Unexpected Hanging The Rest of Us explains the Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxlCiV_axQ0 Music Urban Jungle 2061: https://soundimage.org/sci-fi/ Epic Boss Battle: https://freepd.com/epic.php La Citadelle: https://freepd.com/romantic.php Vinylpunk: https://www.freemusicpublicdomain.com/royalty-free-dance-trance-techno-music/ Seasons: https://open.spotify.com/search/results/seasons%20DJ%20AG

AI and the Future of Design and Development with Zach Pousman TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! (https://stickynote.game) Rails 5 Test Prescriptions (https://pragprog.com/titles/nrtest3) is updated, available, and shipping! Summary What does AI mean for the future of design, development? Can I be replaced by an AI algorithm? Today, we talk to Zach Pousman, from the consultancy Helpfully. Zach thinks a lot about artificial intelligence and how it might impact the future of different knowledge work. It's impossible to talk about AI without talking about the ethics of AI projects and how AI might affect the larger society. We'll talk about why AI started with chess and moved to facial recognition, what AI might and might not be able to do in the future, how we might deal with it, and how that will change the way you work. Guest Zach Pousman (https://twitter.com/thinky): Principal at Helpfully (http://www.helpfully.com/). Notes 02:28 - What is AI? 05:18 - AI Potentially Changing the Way Designers and Developers Work 11:40 - Development Biases and Algorithmic Failures Weapons of Math Destruction (https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-Inequality/dp/0553418831/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523401051&sr=8-1&keywords=weapons+of+math+destructions) Carina C. Zona: Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znwWYR1mzzw) 16:12 - Taking Novice Performance to Expert Levels All Websites Look The Same (http://www.novolume.co.uk/blog/all-websites-look-the-same/) 18:56 - Susceptible Knowledge Work at Risk Due to AI and Ethics; AI as “Parlor Tricks” Reddit Thread: Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I’ve automated my job? (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6k419t/is_it_unethical_for_me_to_not_tell_my_employer/) McKinsey Article: What AI can and can’t do (yet) for your business (https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-analytics/our-insights/what-ai-can-and-cant-do-yet-for-your-business) I got the tic-tac-toe story from this tweet (https://twitter.com/janellecshane/status/974132303315136513), which references this paper "The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution" with more examples (https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453v1) Loebner Prize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebner_Prize) The ELIZA Program (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) The Stanford Question Answering Dataset (https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/) tf-idf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf–idf) 33:06 - AI Vs. Humans and Legislation Google Translate (https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/22/googles-ai-translation-tool-seems-to-have-invented-its-own-secret-internal-language/) When an AI finally kills someone, who will be responsible? (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610459/when-an-ai-finally-kills-someone-who-will-be-responsible/) When Luddites Attack (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/06/404701816/episode-621-when-luddites-attack) 43:09 - Human Skills That Aren’t Replaceable (4C’s: Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity) Special Guest: Zach Pousman.

This is the uncut version of my interview with Bruce Wilcox from our episode on The Loebner Prize.

This is the uncut version of my interview with Charlie Maloney from our episode on The Loebner Prize.

The Loebner Prize is a competition in the spirit of the Turing Test.  Participants are welcome to submit conversational agent software to be judged by a panel of humans.  This episode includes interviews with Charlie Maloney, a judge in the Loebner Prize, and Bruce Wilcox, a winner of the Loebner Prize.

In 1991, the first Loebner Prize was held. The judges at the competition had to determine whether they were communicating with humans or computer programmes. The winner of the prize was the computer programme that most fooled the judges. Rachael Gillman has been speaking to Dr Robert Epstein, who was the organiser of the first competition. Photo Credit: Digital Equipment Corporation

In 1991, the first Loebner Prize was held. The judges at the competition had to determine whether they were communicating with humans or computer programmes. The winner of the prize was the computer programme that most fooled the judges.Rachael Gillman has been speaking to Dr Robert Epstein, who was the organiser of the first competition.Photo Credit: Digital Equipment Corporation

September 2015 Chatbots have yet to fool the judges of the Loebner Prize into believing they’re human at the Loebner Prize. The 25th annual Artificial Intelligence competition, which puts the Turing test into practice, has ended without any of the judges being duped. The BBC’s Technology Correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, was one of the four judges. He says it was easy to tell which of the conversations were with humans and which were with bots. When he started talking about keeping slugs off his vegetable garden and his dog, called Cabbage, Rory says they were soon stumped. After the judging, when Rose had been declared this year’s most human bot, he stopped for a chat with the Bletchley Park Podcast. Picture: ©Katherine Lynch #BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ruskin147, #LoebnerPrize, #AI

May 2014 The Loebner Prize is making Bletchley Park its permanent home. The competition is modelled on Alan Turing’s famous test, which suggests that a thinking computer’s responses would, in conversation, be able to convince a panel of judges that it is human. The Loebner Prize was founded and is sponsored by Dr Hugh Loebner, a New York philanthropist. He says “The competition is the longest running Turing test.” Since the competition’s inception in 1991, no computer has yet managed to win anything other than the Bronze Medal prize. The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), the world’s oldest Artificial Intelligence society, has this year taken over the running of the competition, guaranteeing its continued success. This year’s competition will be held at Bletchley Park on 15 November. In addition to the the $100 000 grand prize and gold medal, the competition offers a $25 000 Silver Medal prize for a program able to fool a majority of judges, and an annual Bronze Medal prize to the most human-like computer. Picture: ©Mubsta #BPark, #Bletchleypark, #LoebnerPrize, #TuringTest

Can computers think? That was the question which provoked English mathematician Alan Turing to come up with what we call the Turing Test, in which a computer engages a human in conversation while a judge, unaware of who is who, looks on and tries to ascertain which participant is made of flesh and blood, and which of bits and bytes. Such a test is held every year in Brighton, England, where the most convincing human confederate is awarded a prize: The Most Human Human. There is also a prize for The Most Human Computer but to date no computer has ever been judged to be more convincingly human than a real person. Enter Brian Christian who, in 2009, took part in this test (known officially as the Loebner Prize) with the aim of being awarded the prize for Most Human Human. He was successful, and in his new book The Most Human Human: A Defense of Humanity in the Age of the Computer (Penguin, 2011) he charts the methodology of his approach, his conclusions on the conceptual value of the Turing Test and the linguistic insights which arise during conversation with a machine. The artificial intelligence of machines remains relatively primitive, but their programming is canny, and they can even appear to have robust personalities and encyclopaedic knowledge on specialist subjects. Christian’s experiences, presented in the form of his book, provide the reader with an accessible and compelling avenue into the reality of contemporary machine ‘intelligence’, the idiosyncratic tapestry that is language and, most of all, the things which make humans human; the things which machines can’t (yet) do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can computers think? That was the question which provoked English mathematician Alan Turing to come up with what we call the Turing Test, in which a computer engages a human in conversation while a judge, unaware of who is who, looks on and tries to ascertain which participant is made of flesh and blood, and which of bits and bytes. Such a test is held every year in Brighton, England, where the most convincing human confederate is awarded a prize: The Most Human Human. There is also a prize for The Most Human Computer but to date no computer has ever been judged to be more convincingly human than a real person. Enter Brian Christian who, in 2009, took part in this test (known officially as the Loebner Prize) with the aim of being awarded the prize for Most Human Human. He was successful, and in his new book The Most Human Human: A Defense of Humanity in the Age of the Computer (Penguin, 2011) he charts the methodology of his approach, his conclusions on the conceptual value of the Turing Test and the linguistic insights which arise during conversation with a machine. The artificial intelligence of machines remains relatively primitive, but their programming is canny, and they can even appear to have robust personalities and encyclopaedic knowledge on specialist subjects. Christian’s experiences, presented in the form of his book, provide the reader with an accessible and compelling avenue into the reality of contemporary machine ‘intelligence’, the idiosyncratic tapestry that is language and, most of all, the things which make humans human; the things which machines can’t (yet) do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can computers think? That was the question which provoked English mathematician Alan Turing to come up with what we call the Turing Test, in which a computer engages a human in conversation while a judge, unaware of who is who, looks on and tries to ascertain which participant is made of flesh and blood, and which of bits and bytes. Such a test is held every year in Brighton, England, where the most convincing human confederate is awarded a prize: The Most Human Human. There is also a prize for The Most Human Computer but to date no computer has ever been judged to be more convincingly human than a real person. Enter Brian Christian who, in 2009, took part in this test (known officially as the Loebner Prize) with the aim of being awarded the prize for Most Human Human. He was successful, and in his new book The Most Human Human: A Defense of Humanity in the Age of the Computer (Penguin, 2011) he charts the methodology of his approach, his conclusions on the conceptual value of the Turing Test and the linguistic insights which arise during conversation with a machine. The artificial intelligence of machines remains relatively primitive, but their programming is canny, and they can even appear to have robust personalities and encyclopaedic knowledge on specialist subjects. Christian’s experiences, presented in the form of his book, provide the reader with an accessible and compelling avenue into the reality of contemporary machine ‘intelligence’, the idiosyncratic tapestry that is language and, most of all, the things which make humans human; the things which machines can’t (yet) do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices