Jabberwacky is to feature in the Faraday Lecture, organised annually by the IEE, and touring the UK and Asia until April.

This year's lecture is entitled "Control freaks? How robots affect our world", all about robots, artificial intelligence and the power of feedback processes.

IEE Faraday Lecture Page: http://www.iee.org/Events/Lectrs/Faraday/2005/index.cfm

... One night something clicked. I saw how to make my machine learn: a feedback loop - today's conversations building better ones tomorrow. I believed immediately in its potential ...

... The data is far more important than the program, but that, too, has developed, with new layers of context-searching and association-forming code being applied, always pushing at the limits of available processing power ...

Full Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1326245,00.html

A computer chat program called Alice has won a prestigious prize for human-like conversation for the third time.

British hopeful, Jabberwacky, came second in the annual competition. "My program is more open and free," Rollo said. "I believe the day of the learning AI will come soon."

Full BBC News story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3672424.stm

Congratulations to Dr Wallace, creator of ALICE.

Next year we mean to win AND to take Loebner's Silver prize for a true Turing Test pass. Help us to achieve it by pushing us well past the 5,000,000 milestone ...