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 Jabberwacky comes in Third

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Date posted: 22/10/2003

Jabberwacky,the UK entry to the Loebner Prize for human-like communication, and the first to use the power of tens of thousands of real users online, to create its very understanding of how to talk, came third in the world, in this Turing-Test inspired competition. Despite this, Jabberwacky managed to make the judges laugh at some of the rediculous antics it was pulling, exhibiting lifelike behaviour traits, and character flaws. Jabberwock, a German AI bot came first, but was not good enough to fool the judges into thinking it was human.

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