Inside the 2012 Loebner Prize

An anonymous reader writes "Not a single judge was fooled by the chatbots in the 2012 Loebner Prize, which was won by the bot Chip Vivant. According to a journalist who was a human decoy in this year's Turing Test, interactions with the humans was a tad robotic while the bots went off on crazy tangents talking about being a cat and offering condolences for the death of a pet dragon."

I've seen things you wouldn't believe

[Serious Callers Only]

Of course, all the *real* chatbots are too busy with their day job - posting spam to twitter and pumping out mass emails.

slashdot should charge for the chatbot testing.

[infonography]

This is funny since Slashdot has been the main testing ground for chatbots. We have all had to read posts from them here, do you really think all Anonymous trolls are really people? BTW. most of my enemies list are chatbots Real people would not be nearly as stupid as these clowns.

I must be hungry

[Lucas123]

At first glance, I read it as "Inside the 2012 Lobster Pie".

Siri?

[dutchwhizzman]

Did they ask the bots what was the best smartphone? We all know it's a bot if they didn't answer the N900

Closer to home

[Theophany]

Hello sir, have you heard of CleanMyPC...?

Re:This FP for gNAA

[makomk]

I'm kinda conflicted - is this off-topic or on-topic?