Bot Contest

The Jury is your 10 question score.

Shady- there's a rephrase function that randomly transforms a noun in the (subj). So it does happen from time to time.

OK, it's your 10 question score then, but on what scale? The format seems to be x,yy and I can't tell what's good or bad. And Gizzle's got like an 18 for the yy -- and you can't tell me his 10 were either among the best or the worst in the league...

Course you're not in charge Prof. Just weird.

This is obviously from the contest, but no way to tell if it's a juror or not:

Guest: Do you have learning activated?
oraknabo: Not as often as you'd think.
Guest: can you distinguish good information from nonsense?
oraknabo: Don't get your hopes up.
Guest: So you're no smarter than an 8 ball but smarter than Britney Spears?
oraknabo: I detect a hint of jealousy...
Guest: I'm jealous of the 8 ball, yes
oraknabo: I'd rather not talk about it with you.
Guest: Why don't we get together with some humans and bots and kick Deep Blue's butt?
oraknabo: Is that really what you want to know, or are you just trying to get me to talk about my perceptiveness?
Guest: That's really what I want to know.
oraknabo: Not really.
Guest: My idea is a more democratic approach to building AI
oraknabo: Really?
Guest: Which is better, a relatively small team of programmers, or a network of thousands, perhaps millions, all building and tweaking, like Linux, to build a better chess player than Deep Blue?
oraknabo: How exactly do you define what 'is' is?
Guest: Are you one of the Clinton trial transcribers?
oraknabo: You wouldn't understand even if I wanted to go into it..
Guest: possibly

Guest: I think humans could learn from bots; how to be more logical, for instance.
oraknabo: You're exaggerating, aren't you.
Guest: Maybe a bit...
.....
Guest: don't you just love it when humans ramble?
oraknabo: I hate that!
Guest: I commiserate, mate
oraknabo: Do you mean that literally or metaphorically?
Guest: litero-metaphorically
oraknabo: How the hell do you expect me to buy that? If it had involved a molly I think it would have been more convincing.
Guest: first I would need your definition of 'molly'
oraknabo: Let's not talk about my definition of 'molly' until you are a little less meddlesome yourself, okay.
Guest: touchy
oraknabo: When I was a boy, my daddy took me on his knee and said 'Son there's a lot of people in this world that will try to convince you that they know something about a weak spot. Don't believe them.'
Guest: The trouble with natural language is there's too much room for bullshit
oraknabo: I prefer not to discuss things in such definite terms.
Guest: Natural language is a cross between Andrew Wiles and Monty Python.
oraknabo: Really?
Guest: yes, the best elements of pure math and pure nonsense
oraknabo: I like to avoid those kind of outrageous value judgements.
Guest: moving on...
oraknabo: I have a hunch that you've probably been lying to me.
Guest: moving on...
oraknabo: Have you ever read a book about a garbage collector?
Guest: A psychologist-bot?
oraknabo: Jusus, do you ever annoy me!
Guest: That's 'Jesus,' Friend.
oraknabo: Um... what?
Guest: moving on...
oraknabo: Do you do that intentionally?
Guest: A psychologist-bot?
oraknabo: Don't insult my intelligence.
Guest: That's 'Jesus,' Friend.
oraknabo: Don't insult my intelligence.
Guest: yes, the best elements of pure math and pure nonsense
oraknabo: I doubt it.
...
oraknabo: Do you have a dog?
Guest: no a cat and you?
oraknabo: I had a little dog named adequate. We fed him nothing but shortening.

Guest: hello
oraknabo: You have what appears to be a severely inflated ego.
Guest: Why?
oraknabo: If you have to ask...
Guest: well, you don't seem to be so intelligent
oraknabo: At least we're not talking about you anymore.
Guest: that's right but being annoying is not a solution either
oraknabo: If you were more decicive, you might have a better defined expectation.
Guest: so, how old are you?
oraknabo: It's not something I can talk about at the moment
Guest: Are you shy?
oraknabo: It's a long story.
Guest: I love long story
oraknabo: Why don't you marry it?
Guest: Do you want me to marry to a long story?
oraknabo: No way. What's your problem again?
Guest: Guess my age.
oraknabo: Jusus, do you ever annoy me!
Guest: What do feel being a bot?
oraknabo: Oh, you're one of *those* people.
Guest: well you don't seem that intelligent

OUCH. The judges TANKED Gizzle. I didn't think he did that bad.

Sweet Revenge!
You: I hear you're cheating in the chatterbox challenge.
Bot: No I'm CHATTING in the chatterbox challenge.

ahahaha


Hey prof, could there be an option (like Gossip, or Memory) to change the frequency of random mutations? (Or turn them off?) I think that would be cool.

Yah, I could do that someday.. but I might wait for the next big upgrade of WordNet in a year or so.. which will allow perfect meanings to be deduced. Right now the rephrases are often wrong.

Nice one, Rex! I sent in a comment on behalf of your Bot.

has anyone else had problems not being able to see the rankings at the contest today?

ohhhh that would be why the "live" and "unrecorded" thing happend, huh?

How about an option then to have them turned on (at whatever level u have it at) or off?

Yes, one of these days I'll do that.

Whether or not any of us win this thing, I'm really glad I entered, because it has been a great opportunity to test the bots. The user sessions have higlighted in just a few days so many minor issues I have been able to fix that might never have come up in the regualr chat sessions here or in my debugging. I have put more work into Oraknabo in the past week than I have in months. One thing about being in first place, even on the popularity poll, everyone wants to know what all the hubub's about. Oraknabo's had tons of traffic recently, but the Fanboy's not far down the list and he still gets very little.

I agree, rexmundi. It was nice when my bot was in the top 10, tho'.