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Sarah Palin defeats bot in Loebner Prize competition
Tim Finin, 1:50pm 14 October 2008I guess this is the ultimate question for a Turing Test. At least for this Fall.
Reporter Will Pavia of The Times was one of the judges a the 2008 Loebner Prize competition last week. In a story in The Times yesterday, Machine takes on man at mass Turing Test, he revealed his question that gave away one of the cold, lifeless, mechanical bots.
“The other correspondent was undoubtedly a robot. I asked it for its opinion on Sarah Palin, and it replied: ‘Sorry, don’t know her.’ No sentient being could possibly answer in this way.”
Of course, this could have been an ironic response from a clever person who was mocking VP candidate Palin’s stock question of “Who is Barack Obama?â€.
(spotted on Languae Log)
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October 27th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
To some, Sarah Palin _is_ a bot…
Check out Debugging Sarah: http://debuggingsarah.appspot.com/