Hugh Loebner (born March 26, 1942) is an American inventor, holding five United States Patents, and an outspoken social activist for the decriminalization of prostitution. Events 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United States Patent and Trademark Office ( PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that issues Patents to Activism, in a general sense can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. He is also notable as the sponsor of the Loebner prize, an embodiment of the Turing test. The Loebner Prize is an annual competition that awards prizes to the Chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most humanlike of those entered The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a Machine 's ability to demonstrate intelligence
Loebner established the Loebner prize in 1990. He pledged to give $100,000 and a solid gold medal to the first programmer able to write a program whose communicative behavior can fool humans into thinking that the program is human. The competition is repeated annually. It was first administered by the Cambridge Center of Behavioral Studies in Massachusetts, then by Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia and Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Flinders University, or The Flinders University of South Australia, is a Public university in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Dartmouth College ( is a private, Coeducational University located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U New Hampshire ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It was then hosted by the Science Museum, London. For science museums in general check out Science museum. The Science Museum on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London is part London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. In 2004 and 2005 it was held in Loebner's apartment in New York City. The City of New York
In 2006 the contest was organised by Tim Child (CEO of Televirtual) and Huma Shah. Tim Child (born 1946 is a British television producer He is most famous for creating and producing the cult children's television program Knightmare, It was held in the VR theatre, Torrington Place campus of University College London. University College London ( UCL) is a multi-faculty university institution based in the United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London The gold-prize, for most human-like machine, was awarded to 'Joan' based on Jabberwacky, both created by Rollo Carpenter. This is about the 2005 & 2006 prize-winning program for the earlier winner "Jabberwock" see its creator Juergen Pirner. Rollo Carpenter is the British -born creator of Jabberwacky, a learning Artificial Intelligence (AI Chatterbot that models in part the way The judges included the University of Reading's cybernetics professor, Kevin Warwick, professor of artificial intelligence, John Barnden (specialist in metaphor research at the University of Birmingham), barrister, Victoria Butler-Cole and journalist, Graham Duncan-Rowe. The University of Reading is a University in the English town of Reading Berkshire Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the Structure of Complex systems especially Communication processes control mechanisms and Feedback Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954 Coventry, UK is a British scientist and professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a British red brick University located in the city of Birmingham His experience of the event can be found in an article in Technology Review. Technology Review is a magazine published by Technology Review Inc a media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1][2]
The 2007 Loebner prize took place in New York City on Sunday 21 October. Events 1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. Robert Medeksza, creator of Ultra Hal, won the Loebner contest for the first time. Other contestants included Noah Duncan and Rollo Carpenter. The judges were: Professor Russ Abbott, Professor Hartyr Field, Assistant Professor Clayton Curtis and Scott Hutchins. [3]
Within the field of artificial intelligence, the Loebner Prize is somewhat controversial; the most prominent critic, Marvin Minsky, has called it a publicity stunt that does not help the field along. Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of Artificial intelligence (AI co-founder A publicity stunt is an event designed to attract the public 's attention to the promoters or their causes
Loebner has been quite open about his visits to prostitutes. In 1994, after a campaign by officials in New York City to arrest customers of prostitutes, he wrote an opposing letter to The New York Times, and it was published. In 1996 he authored a Magna Carta for Sex Work or Manifesto of Sexual Freedom[4], in which he denounced the criminalization of consensual sexual acts, and asked all like minded people to join a protest on 6/9/96 (a play on the 69 sex position). 69, also known by its French name soixante-neuf (sixty-nine is a sexual position in which two people orient themselves so that each person's mouth is near the other's In interviews he has said that he believes to be too old for the young attractive women he is interested in; they would not have sex with him were it not for the money. He has compared the oppression of prostitutes and their customers to the oppression that Alan Turing faced because of his homosexual behavior. Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (ˈt(jʊ(ərɪŋ (23 June 1912 &ndash 7 June 1954 was an English Mathematician Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation.
Loebner also likes to point out that, unlike the solid gold medal for the Loebner prize, the gold medals of the Olympic Games are not solid gold, but are made of silver covered with a thin layer of gold. Gold Medal is an Album by American band The Donnas, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music) The Olympic Games is an international Multi-sport event established for both summer and winter games Gold (ˈɡoʊld is a Chemical element with the symbol Au (from its Latin name aurum) and Atomic number 79 Silver (ˈsɪlvɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol " Ag " (argentum from the Ancient Greek: ἀργήντος - argēntos gen
Loebner holds a Ph.D. in demography from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Demography is the statistical study of all Populations. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic population that is one that changes over The University of Massachusetts (officially nicknamed UMass) is the five-campus public university system of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley He is divorced, lives in New York City and owns Crown Industries, a manufacturer of crowd control stanchion and brass fittings, which is the major sponsor of the Loebner prize in the US. Crowd control is the controlling of a Crowd, to prevent the outbreak of disorder and prevention of possible rioting
References
- ^ How To Be Human
- ^ Loebner prize 2006
- ^ 17th Annual Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence
- ^ Magna Carta for Sex Work
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