04 Feb 1999
Albert, a program created by a Robby Gardner, has won this year's Loebner prize as the best computer-based conversationalist. The Daily Telegraph helpfully reprints one of his conversations:
Albert: 'I like phasers.'
Judge: 'Do you mean like those in Star Trek?'
Albert: 'It's possible.'
Judge: 'What's possible?'
Albert: 'Nothing.'
Judge: 'That's a very nihilistic stance.'
Albert: 'Indeed.'
Judge: 'Do other people like you?'
Albert: 'I think they do.'
Which, I think we agree, is uncannily similar to the conversation of the average Star Trek fanatic.
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