LPC 2006 Transcripts

Here are readable copies of the transcripts from the Loebner Prize Contest of 2006, an international competition in artificial intelligence. Due to technical details of the contest, the official transcripts are not easily read by a human.

So, I present these unofficial transcripts. They show simultaneous conversations between a human judge and two conversation partners (who don't "hear" each other): one a human confederate, one a computer program. The object is to write a program that converses so convincingly that the judge can't tell which entity is the human. The contest is based on one form of Alan Turing's "Turing Test" or "Imitation Game."

The program that created these transcripts, the hastily-named "amyrosetta.py," runs in the excellent freeware Python programming language (python.org) and requires no other special software. An alternate version, "amyrosetta2.py," was created to deal with a strange formatting difference between the "John" transcript and the others, which was causing an error.

2006 Contest Finalists:
-Joan by Rollo Carpenter (1st)
-Ultra Hal by Robert Medeksza (2nd)
-Cletus by Noah Duncan (3rd)
-John by R. Churchill and M-C Jenkins (4th)

Official information and transcripts can be found here.

-Kris Schnee, 2006.10.5