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I think it's a bit unfair to say he cheated. He didn't break any rules, even if his program wasn't really in the previous spirit of the competition - but it als

I think it's a bit unfair to say he cheated. He didn't break any rules, even if his program wasn't really in the previous spirit of the competition - but it also sounds like they needed a bit of shaking up anyway. From the Loebner Prize page: "The winner of the annual contest is the best entry relative to other entries that year, irrespective of how good it is in an absolute sense". Sounds like his entry certainly was deserving of the annual contest, even if it's not a general AI solution.

jdp23 14y ago
Personally, I would agree with you. But Hutchens' own paper was called "How to Win the Turing Prize By Cheating" -- http://www.csee.umbc.edu/471/papers/hutchens.pdf http://www.csee.umbc.edu/471/papers/hutchens.pdf -- so I guess reasonable minds differ.
- smarsh 14y ago
  It's just his light-hearted way of calling out the Turing test, I think.