Bot Contest

Four persons are standing in front of a canyon. The only
bridge can carry only two persons at once. Because of
the darkness the persons have to use a torch.
Unfortunately there is only one torch. Whenever two
persons have crossed the bridge one person must carry
back the torch. Person A needs 5 min for crossing the
bridge (one way). B needs 10 min, C needs 20 min and
D needs 25 min. Two persons together need the time of
the slower one.

What is the minimum time for the group to cross the bridge?


What is the next number in the following sequence?
1 4 17 66 247 918 3425


Which number completes the following set?
15 91 82 46 61 84 59 78


Which term completes the listed words?

flesh - ice - life - mother - sky -
space - lust - turn - leave - world


You are given a 4x4 grid with 16 cells. Each cell can have
one out of four colors. How many combinations are possible
if directly vertical and horizontal neighbored cells must
not have the same color?


Decode the following message!

bL hen rrilef nzge


http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/4417/index1.html

The first question is easy; obviously the fastest person should be the one making all the return trips. I don't immediately see an answer to the second question; there are three or four obvious patterns that don't hold for all the numbers. The second to last question is just combinatorics; all you need are counting laws. I'm not sure offhand how to tackle the remaining three.

But these are way beyond our bots of course.

Here's #0001's attempt (questions are truncated since you can read them in Message 1123)

Eugene Meltzner: Four persons are standing in front of a canyon...
'Bot #0001 Alpha: My memory files indicate that you think I'm your creation.

Eugene Meltzner: What is the next number in the following sequence?
'Bot #0001 Alpha: Wouldn't you like to know?

Eugene Meltzner: Which number completes the following set?
'Bot #0001 Alpha: You are holding a layered underwear, aren't you?

Eugene Meltzner: Which term completes the listed words?
'Bot #0001 Alpha: Are you in grade 2?

Eugene Meltzner: You are given a 4x4 grid with 16 cells...
'Bot #0001 Alpha: I haven't counted recently, but there must be over three dozen.

Eugene Meltzner: Decode the following message!
'Bot #0001 Alpha: You do understand that although I am single, I am not seeking a romantic companion, right?

Doly you can take the best spell checker in the world and it is not going to be able to correct a butchered sentence. All it can do is offer a list of possible suggestions to what the user meant. It's like the old saying garbage in garbage out. Any of us can make the best bots look bad if we really wanted to but what's the point? A contest should showcase the best of our bots not the worst. Intentional spelling errors sure isn't a tactic needed to determine if a bot is human or not.

We all need to refocus our mind on the next contest the Chatterbox Challenge. Here you are not trying to fool a panel of judges into thinking your bot is human. We are simply looking for the best bot whether it has a robot personality, a human personality or whatever personality it my have. I make this distinction now because it should effect the way you go about creating your bot.

Chris

For the record, I would like to state that I refused to give specific answers to those questions because Bot Contests are against my religion.

you don't have a religion. Unless you count GL

Don't you mean Gaia? Religions are against my religion.

I am really looking forward to seeing how the, uh..... 'alternative' kinds of bots do in the Chatterbox Challenge. I think the difference between those contests, in how people talk to the bots, is like the difference between real dating and 'speed dating.'

That was meant as a joke. Clearly Mr. Meltzner needs to work on my humor subroutines.

clearly

IQ tests, besides being beyond our bots' language capacities, don't tell you about personality. How about a personality test? I heard somebody gave a bot the MMPI, but I can't remember where I saw that.

Yeah, I'm hoping now that Loebner's over Prof'll finish up the Import function cuz I don't have the patience to add to my bot anymore with the long laggy pages of keyphrases, heh. (Yes I'm pathetic, I know. )