The
unfriendly user: exploring social reactions to chatterbots
(2001) This paper presents a preliminary evaluation of Alice, a chatterbot designed
in order to elicit anthropomorphic attributions and emotional reactions from those who
chat to ‘her’. The analysis is based on both transcripts of the interaction and
user comments collected in a focus group
Chatterbots,
Tinymuds, And The Turing Test: Entering The Loebner Prize Competition
(January 1994) The Turing Test was proposed by Alan Turing in 1950; he called it
the Imitation Game. In 1991 Hugh Loebner started the Loebner Prize competition, offering a
$100,000 prize to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted Turing
test. Annual competitions are held each year with smaller prizes for the best program on a
restricted Turing test.