Loebner prize

The Loebner Prize is an annual competition that awards prizes to the Chatterbot considered the most humanlike for that year. The format of the competition is much like that of a standard Turing Test.

Table of contents

1 Prizes 2 Winners 3 See also 4 External links

Prizes

The prizes for each year include:

• $2,000 for the most human seeming of all bots for that year - awarded every year
• $25,000 for the first bot that judges cannot distinguish from a real human in a text-only based Turing Test (awarded once only)
• $100,000 to the first bot that judges cannot distinguish from a real human in a Turing Test that includes deciphering and understanding text, visual, auditory (and tactile?) input.

The Loebner Prize dissolves once the $100,000 prize is won.

Dr. Hugh Loebner established the prize in conjunction with The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.

Winners

Year	Winner
1991	Joseph Weintraub
1992	Joseph Weintraub
1993	Joseph Weintraub
1994	Thomas Whalen
1995	Joseph Weintraub
1996	Jason Hutchens
1997	David Levy
1998	Robby Garner
1999	Robby Garner
2000	Richard Wallace
2001	Richard Wallace
2002	Kevin Copple
2003	Juergen Pirner

See also

• Cybernetics
• Robot

External links

The Loebner Prize 2003 website
Detailed information about the Loebner prize