Loebner

Even back in 2008, a computer nearly convinced a panel of judges that it was more human than the flesh-and-blood people it was competing against in the annual Turing Test shootout called the Loebner Prize.

CNET News.com 2011

He’d been assigned to help the FBI follow the cell-phone trail of Oscar Loebner, aka Olam ben Z’man.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

He’d been assigned to help the FBI follow the cell-phone trail of Oscar Loebner, aka Olam ben Z’man.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

David was surprised at first that Loebner had so many useful contacts, but Olam explained that the Sayeret Matkal was a fraternity of sorts.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

Oscar Loebner the computer scientist had just delivered some sobering news.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

Consider the annual Loebner Prize competition, one version of the Turing test.

When Computers Beat Humans on Jeopardy Ray Kurzweil 2011

Mr. Christian entered the 2009 Loebner contest in Brighton, England, not with a computer that he had programmed but as a "confederate": one of the people that the judges have to try to distinguish from the machines.

More Than Machine Julian Baggini 2011

The camera at the front door shows Loebner entering the building at ten-seventeen P.M. on Tuesday.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

The exchanging of roles between human and machine is at the heart of Mr. Christian's project, which weaves its narrative around the Loebner Prize, awarded annually to the world's "most human" computer.

More Than Machine Julian Baggini 2011

In his former life as Oscar Loebner, he was a computer scientist, right?

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011