A wonderful mind: I.M. David Levy wins Loebner Prize

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I.M. David Levy.

 

Scottish GM and mathematician David Levy has won the "Loebner Prize", which is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like, following the guide lines of Alan Turing.

You might have heard about "Alice bot". Well, that one won the prize also on a previous year.

Levy presented a new program called "Do much more".

Back in 1997, his programa "converse" won the award also.

Levy predicted in 1968 that no chess program would be able to beat the best players in the world in 10 years time. He was right: to prove it, he played a match against the then best program in the world, Chess 4.5, and won 3.5-1.5. However, after winning that match he also said that he was sure computers would beat a World Champion in the not too distant future, and once again, he was right...

 

Here's a game from that match which LEvy won. In the fifth game, the machine produced some pretty interesting chess: pay attention to its 12th move (12...Nxe3!) and 25th (25...Bxh3!!).