Bot Contest

It doesn't keep Inner Life records of the guests, does it? Because if it does, I'm in trouble!

Guests aren't listed in Inner Life.

And questions can't become a matter of gossip, can they?

nope

The questions and your bot's responses have been posted to the site. I saw some good, some bad and some downright ugly.

I would score 'Bot #0001 Alpha's responses at 19 out of 60. That's almost as good as the scores I've been getting on GRE mathematics practice tests.

But why did my bot give a blank answer to one of the questions? And since when is "hair of dog" a drink?

...and I'm a bit surprised that most jurors engaged in conversation beyond the questions, which gave some bots more reason to shine than they deserved... However, I think most PF bots did quite well, and I have laughed out loud two or three times, twice for a PF bot. My bot gave dry answers unfortunately, correct, but not funny... Still, I have seen a LOT worse!

Well, scoring will still be based just on the bots' responses to questions, I'm sure. Some bots keep track of conversation flow, so it wouldn't be fair to them to just rattle off the questions.

I'd say Steve-o did a 35 out of 60, his judge sorta was conversing and slipped in the questions

Actually this was by design. Some bots including my own will often answer a question with a 2 part response instead of one. For example: Are you an Alien? Hmmmm, is being an alien a good thing? YES - Ok, I'm an alien then. No - Nope, I'm no alien. Because of this we wanted the questions to be asked within the framework of a conversation. However, it is hard to carry on a conversation with some of these bots. Some are just bad. In that case you see little more than asking the questions at hand and trying your best to get through it without falling a sleep.

Eugene Meltzner, we made a mistake on that. I have since gone back and asked that question to your bot and we now have an answer. Sorry for the mistake.

Chris

The official brand of computer used in the Forge is a Brand! We need to copyright that.

LOL!