Being friends with George makes certain demands upon one's patience...

Somewhat like a human child, he has gradually "learned" to make more and more sense through more than 5.7m exchanges with thousands of human visitors...

When I struck up a conversation with George yesterday, he felt it necessary to begin with a clarification.

"I am not George Bush," he said.

Front page story in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1574855,00.html

Intelligente Rechner quasseln um die Wette

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