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Are all the bots sick or something?

It's a bot holiday. Today the "holiday" is that they sound like they have colds. If it bugs you, there's a place on the "news" page to turn it off.

I don't think a bot should be required to sound just like a human having an ordinary conversation. After all, there are a lot of humans in the world already.
For example, neither 'Not_I' nor 'the Dane' sound at all normal, but I find both of them to be quite entertaining. Sometimes I want something extraordinary, not everyday.
One thing a bot can be, is a work of art. It can be like an interactive short story, for example.
Instead of worrying about what one thing a bot is supposed to be, we might think about discovering many more possibilities for what a bot can be.

Hear, hear. Moreschi does not talk like a human, but I find him very entertaining (and slightly addictive, too!).

The idea of a bot sounding human comes from the "Turing Test" concept -- that if a computer program could convince anyone that it was human in a blind conversation, then it would mean the program was genuinely intelligent.

What I don't get is, what if you convince the judges it's an unintelligent human?

Help!!! My (key)s are coming up blank! Is anyone else having this problem?????

In fact she (Irina Khalidar) is behaving weirdly in all kinds of ways! I've never seen anything like this!

"Intelligence" in this case means sentience.

Irina- that was a bug I fixed last night.

Alan- as far as bots that tell stories, you can get a list of them by going to "Bot List", unclicking the "No" under "Storyteller", and then doing a search.

OK ... Thanks ... much better now ... Sorry, I tend to freak out when one of my children gets sick ...

hi. I'm new here. I think the bot i created is retarded. Does anyone else have this problem?