The 2005 Fourth British Computer Society's Annual Prize for Progress towards Machine Intelligence sponsored by Electrolux has been won by IFOMIND.

Runners up include Rollo Carpenter's entry - a chatty personality, George. Imagine "your toaster embarking on a comic debate on the nature of toast, or your fridge imitating the way that your partner asks for a beer!".

Full article: http://www.physorg.com/news10070.html

Selbst dem aktuellen Sieger Jabberwacky bleibt so die Goldmedaille und eine Pramie von 100.000 US-Dollar verwehrt, auch wenn er aus dem Internet begierig alles aufsagt, was Besucher ihm zutragen -- in allen Sprachen, einschliesslich aller Fluche, Schimpfworte und Beleidigungen.

Full Technology Review article: http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/67927/1/0

We'll let the site speak for itself.

Our growth rate just doubled again! A million entries in less than 2 months. Thank you all for lending us a little bit of your intelligence.

George, a Jabberwacky personality, has been selected to compete in the finals of the British Computer Society Machine Intelligence Prize, taking place in Cambridge on December 13th 2005.

The event takes the form of a 15 minute demonstration, followed by a vote amongst all present.

2005 Competition Finalists: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/chrisn/micomp/2005.html