In a contest in New York there was no winner. I am trapped on the magic isle of the Phoenix'. Repeatedly Julie Stewart types in her question, hoping that someone on the other end will give her the clues she needs to escape.
Wondrous sentences appear on the screen.
When the Phoenix' recovers his feathers, then the isle will be a splendid place. The messages on the screen inform us that the girl with the overwrought fantasies is 14 years old. Last week in New York five programs competed for the Loebner Prize. In the stuffy billiards cellar of the Salmagundi Club, the tradition-filled meeting place for Manhattan's artistic scene sit computers, each with a juror in front of it. One of them is actually a terminal connected to Janet Skinner, the only human being, who engages in dialog from behind a curtain.