Rory Cellan-Jones - Loebner Prize Judge

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

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