Blue World Notes: Meet Suzette, the Blue Mars Bot that Won AI's Famed Turing Test Loebner Prize

Now in Blue Mars you can meet "Suzette", the AI chatbot program which won this year's Loebner Prize after fooling a judge that she was human in a classic Turing test. Created by AI programmer Bruce Wilcox for Blue Mars, the underlying code that makes Suzette possibly is available to Blue Mars developers. Full disclosure: I'm a consultant for Blue Mars. Fuller disclosure: It's for awesome projects like Suzette that I wanted to become a consultant for Blue Mars in the first place. Read more about Suzette here.

Comments

[Extropia DaSilva]

When you say she won the Loebner prize, I assume you mean she won the bronze prize for being the best chatbot entered this year, rather than winning the silver prize for acting convincingly human, or the gold for not only acting convincingly human but also looking just like a human?

[Extropia DaSilva]

Read a bit more into this. Aparrently the chief reason why Suzette won is because the human she was paired with impersonated a chatbot. This just goes to show that just because a bot fools a judge, that does not necessarily make it 'smart'.

Not that I want to belittle the achievement of the winning team or anything. Robby Garner, who does research in natural language processing and who won the contest in '98 and '99, said this year's entrants were 'the best so far in terms of the bots' complexity and engineering'. Clearly then, some great work was done here.

[Little Lost Linden]

oh no...more bots.

[Ignatius Onomatopoeia]

You were too easy on her, Hamlet!

I want to know if you asked her if she understands "the language of love." Your conversations with those SL bots just had me in stitches.

[Hamlet Au]

Haha, I do some of that on the Blue blog. She plays hard to get though!