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Full silicon.de story: http://www.silicon.de/cpo/news-adn/detail.php?nr=23808

Cheeky chat software accuses judge of not having a life.

Full Story at vnunet.com: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2142532/brit-program-wins-prize

A British computer chat program, called George, has won an international prize for holding the most convincingly human-like conversation.

Mr Carpenter told the BBC News website that the win was a first for an AI (Artificial Intelligence) that learns from its interactions. "Though Jabberwacky, and the George character within it, remain distinctly unusual in their behaviour, the fact that they work at all, and that they've improved greatly over the last year, is a testament to the power of context."

Full BBC News story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4263278.stm

George, one of the first Jabberwacky Your Bot characters, has won Hugh Loebner's Bronze Medal and $3000 prize for its creator, Rollo Carpenter. George was judged the 'most human'.

"A huge thank you to Hugh Loebner, who has created, single-handedly sponsored, doggedly defended and repeatedly orchestrated this excellent Turing Test event. Thank you also to all those who have chatted at Jabberwacky.com - the AI has borrowed your intelligence to achieve this prize."

Talk to George: http://www.jabberwacky.com/chat-george

Results: http://loebner.net/Prizef/2005_Contest/results.html

Transcripts: http://loebner.net/Prizef/2005_Contest/Transcripts.html

Start creating Your Bot - your persona: http://www.jabberwacky.com/yourbot

This paper presents a preliminary analysis of verbal abuse in spontaneous human-chatterbot conversations. An ethnographic study suggested that abuse is pervasive and may reflect an asymmetrical power distribution, where the user is the master, and the chatterbot the slave. We propose that verbal aggression in this setting may be a social norm applied by users to differentiate themselves from the machine in what can be regarded as a form of interspecies conflict. The findings stress the importance of naturalistic, ethnographic studies to uncover social dynamics of virtual relationships.

A paper by Antonella De Angeli of the School of Informatics, University of Manchester, and Rollo Carpenter of Jabberwacky.

Full Paper as a pdf: http://www.agentabuse.org/deangeli.pdf