(MENAFNEditorial) iCrowdNewswire - Aug 17, 2017 The most important competition in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
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The Loebner prize is one of the most important competitions in the world of Artificial Intelligence, and tonight the, have officially announced the 4 finalists in the competition.
For a bit of history, the Loebner prize was founded by Hugh Loebner in 1991, a very kind and funny guy that I was proud to have become friends with throughvia Facebook. The Loebner prize is the modern day version of the Turing Test, where A.I. from around the world battle it out for the award of most human like A.I., and try to convince a panel of human judges into believing that they themselves arehuman.
This tournament will be a very special event, sadly in December 2016, Hugh passed away, so this years competition will hold a special place in many peoples hearts, as Hugh's legacy lives on. It was truly an honor to virtually meet Hugh, and also his wife, Elaine. His death was an event that shook the world of Artificial Intelligence, and it is great to see that his life's work will continue pushing the progression of the technology.
The unofficial results wereon the 15th of August by Andrew Martin, Secretary of the AISB and responsible for the qualifying stage of the Loebner Prize. Shortly after the results were officially posted on the. It comes as no shock to me that Mitsuku Bot, developed by my friend Steve Worswick, and owned by Pandorabots, was first selection with 27 points, four points clear of 2nd place held by an A.I. calledRose.
The selection process involved 20 questions, and each A.I. that was submitted to the competition were asked these questions to determine the 4 finalists. You can view the final resultshere:
I mentioned it was not a surprise to me, as Steve, Pandorabots andhave an very good history in the Loebner Prize, Mitsuku Bot has won the award for most human like A.I. twice, and each year she goes from strength to strength.
The interesting thing regarding Mitsuku is that she is built using a markup language known as A.I.M.L, Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, a programming method that I based by own markup language TAIML on, and spent a lot of my early years working on. As technology has advanced, many developers have moved towards Neural Networks, both generative (The A.I. creates its own response based on training data it has been exposed to), and Retrieval (Fairly similar to A.I.M.L but uses machine learning). The reason why I say this is interesting is that no Generative or Retrieval based A.I. that use machine learning has ever come close to the results that Mitsuku achieves in these competitions, and in fact every day life, however I do hope to open communication and suggest a project where we integrate these technologies based on Mitsuku's existingdata.
I love to mention this, and in fact Steve asked me to, a lot of the development on Mitsuku this year was done whilst listening to my DJ mixes, so for another year I am proud to have played a small part in the development of such an amazingA.I.
The finals of the Loebner Prize will be held at Bletchley Park on Saturday 16 September 2017, I have no doubt that on that I day I will be reporting how Mitsuku has won for a third time, but I guess I may be biased and we will all have to wait for the important day. If you would like to read up more about Mitsuku and the Loebner Prize you can readand
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