George certainly had a nice long chat with one of his human friends! 11 hours long, with short breaks totalling about 90 minutes, resulting in 1032 lines of conversation. Thank you, whoever you are, for a big contribution to the AI's learning!

Jabberwacky: I am you and you are me and we're all together.

There's no arguing with the ornery son of a botmaster. Jabberwacky will spin off into non-sequiturs, or he'll pretend the user is someone else˜someone named Shannon or Jenny˜to dodge the question.

Dragonfire story: http://dfire.org/x2344.xml

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The Windows Media TV clip: george_ITV.wmv

From the Technology News section

George, the winner of last year's illustrious Loebner prize for most convincing conversational program, has been given voice-recognition software so that people can to talk to him rather than typing in text. The new George, which also sports a 3D animated body and a computer-generated voice - by UK firm InterMediaLab - was launched last week at a British Computer Society meeting in Norwich.

George has been designed to express a range of emotions in his voice and appearance. So moving to speech-based interaction should improve the quality of George's responses, says his creator Rollo Carpenter, because people talk more naturally than they type, and George uses their input to learn.

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