Case Study AI

Question 1

What is the Loebner Prize?

Answer 1

international competition, where a Silver Medal and prize money of $25 000 would go to the first person or team who could create a machine that would pass the Turing Test (computer programs considered by the judges to be the most human-like)

an annual prize for the best science fiction movie of the year.

Question 2

A chatbot is a computer programme that uses natural language instead of programming language to communicate.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The Loebner prize Silver Medal has not yet been won because

Answer 3

no chatbot has tricked half the judges into believing that it is human.

Question 4

The hypothesis posited by the Turing Test is that

Answer 4

we will know that computers are intelligent when they can use human language.

Question 5

Pragmatics is

Answer 5

the way in which we adapt language to the context in which it is used.

Understanding language requires more than just a knowledge of words and syntax, it also depends heavily on our ability to contextualize what is being said and to infer the other person’s intentions, or pragmatics