Rollo Carpenter
Encyclopedia
Rollo Carpenter is the British
-born creator of Jabberwacky
and Cleverbot
, learning Artificial Intelligence
(AI) software. Carpenter has worked as CTO
of a business software
startup
in Silicon Valley
, but returned to the UK to work at Icogno.
As Managing Director of Existor Ltd, Carpenter is developing AI for entertainment
, companionship and communication
and education. His AI entries George and Joan were #1 for Loebner Prize
(2005) and (2006). In 2010, Carpenter won the British Computer Society's Machine Intelligence Competition.
In 2011, Cleverbot, a learning Artificial Intelligence conversationalist, took part alongside humans in a formal Turing Test at the Techniche 2011 festival at IIT Guwahati, India on the 3rd of September. The results from 1,334 votes were announced September 4th 2011. Cleverbot was judged to be 59.3% human, far exceeding expectations. The humans in the event achieved, just 63.3%.
"That is rather an amazing figure. It's higher than even I was expecting, or even, really, hoping for," said British AI scientist Rollo Carpenter during a lecture at the Techniche festival. "The figures the test exceeded 50%, and you could argue all this to mean that Cleverbot has now passed the Turing Test, here at Techniche 2011."
The way that the volunteers conversed during both of these tests, fell into a 'chatty', light-hearted pattern, with the audience reportedly enjoying the process.
In neither test was there a great deal of analytical thinking put into how to 'break' the bot, nor attempts made as to ask complex questions requiring logical replies. A test populated entirely by such questioners would generate a different outcome.
Though it is on the way, the current Cleverbot is not designed to handle such logic - it is designed to imitate human chat.
A claim of an actual pass would be ambiguous and is open to endless debate.
The outcome of the Techniche 2011 event was that Cleverbot came very close to passing a 'chatty participants' Turing Test. It was sufficiently rigorous in that regard to be a valid result.
He is brother of Merlin Carpenter
, an artist
.
United Kingdom
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-born creator of Jabberwacky
Jabberwacky
Jabberwacky is a chatterbot created by British programmer Rollo Carpenter. Its stated aim is to "simulate natural human chat in an interesting, entertaining and humorous manner"...
and Cleverbot
Cleverbot
Cleverbot is a web application that uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to hold conversations with humans. It was created in 1988 by AI scientist Rollo Carpenter, who also created Jabberwacky, a similar web application. In the first decade of its existence, Cleverbot held several thousand...
, learning Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
(AI) software. Carpenter has worked as CTO
Chief technical officer
A chief technology officer is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupant is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization....
of a business software
Business software
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startup
Startup company
A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets...
in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
, but returned to the UK to work at Icogno.
As Managing Director of Existor Ltd, Carpenter is developing AI for entertainment
Entertainment
Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...
, companionship and communication
Communication
Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
and education. His AI entries George and Joan were #1 for Loebner Prize
Loebner prize
The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition is that of a standard Turing test. In each round, a human judge simultaneously holds textual conversations...
(2005) and (2006). In 2010, Carpenter won the British Computer Society's Machine Intelligence Competition.
In 2011, Cleverbot, a learning Artificial Intelligence conversationalist, took part alongside humans in a formal Turing Test at the Techniche 2011 festival at IIT Guwahati, India on the 3rd of September. The results from 1,334 votes were announced September 4th 2011. Cleverbot was judged to be 59.3% human, far exceeding expectations. The humans in the event achieved, just 63.3%.
"That is rather an amazing figure. It's higher than even I was expecting, or even, really, hoping for," said British AI scientist Rollo Carpenter during a lecture at the Techniche festival. "The figures the test exceeded 50%, and you could argue all this to mean that Cleverbot has now passed the Turing Test, here at Techniche 2011."
The way that the volunteers conversed during both of these tests, fell into a 'chatty', light-hearted pattern, with the audience reportedly enjoying the process.
In neither test was there a great deal of analytical thinking put into how to 'break' the bot, nor attempts made as to ask complex questions requiring logical replies. A test populated entirely by such questioners would generate a different outcome.
Though it is on the way, the current Cleverbot is not designed to handle such logic - it is designed to imitate human chat.
A claim of an actual pass would be ambiguous and is open to endless debate.
The outcome of the Techniche 2011 event was that Cleverbot came very close to passing a 'chatty participants' Turing Test. It was sufficiently rigorous in that regard to be a valid result.
He is brother of Merlin Carpenter
Merlin Carpenter
Merlin Carpenter is an English visual artist. Writing in Frieze art critic Katie Sonnenborn stated that a recent exhibition "continued his nuanced critique of the condition of contemporary art-making," and that, "working within the framework of the gallery, he presented a suite of canvases that...
, an artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
.