
HeX was more complex than MegaHAL, and actually used MegaHAL as just a part of its programming.“If I can beat those other systems with a program which took only a month to make then there is something wrong with the way the contest is structured.” - Jason.Hutchens’s intent was to show the futility of Loebner’s contest. Relied on non sequiturs in conversation.Winning programmer: Joseph Weintraub’s program PC Therapist III.Eight cases in which a computer was misclassified as human.Five judges rated the top contestant as human.To give the computers a fighting chance, contestants were allowed to select a single topic to converse on.Judges had short conversations with each contestant and rated their human-ness.1991: 10 judges and 8 contestants (6 computers and 2 humans).

Machines are programmed to carry on a conversation with the user.Expands this to a computer convincing an interrogator that it is human.

