The Turing Hub

A website called The Turing Hub serves as an arrangement between several chatterbot authors to simulate an online Turing test. Visitors to the site may elect to be partnered with a conversationalist at random. After a five minute conversation, the visitor is asked to rate the conversation on a "humanness" scale. These ratings are tallied so that an ongoing experiment becomes possible.

The Turing Hub's design is such that various web-based resources May Be connected together like a telephone switchboard so that groups of two people may converse or a person may interact with a chatterbot. After the conversation, an opinion poll is interrogated. The results show how human the bots are and how robotic the humans are.

It was the designers' intention that the "hub" be used for learning how to build better bots and as an illustration of just how very far away we are from building truly intelligent software entities. The experience is something like being a judge at a Loebner Prize contest or other instantiation of the Alan Turing Imitation game.

Participating chatterbot designers include:

Rollo Carpenter
Richard Wallace
Dr. Vladimir Vesselov
Robby Garner