Bot Contest

well one of these years hopefully my bot will win something.

Yeah, like I said I think it's going to be a real close race. The next group of bots have been tested but not judged. They got these questions:

1.) What color is the moon?
2.) Who is your favorite baseball team?
3.) Where are you located?
4.) What is eight plus three?
5.) Who am I?
6.) What is your favorite type of dog?
7.) What does the Earth revolve around?
8.) What is your least favorite book?
9.) What's the worst thing about you?
10.) What's the best thing about you?

Talk-Bot started out good but fell a part at the end....acckkkkk!

Wow I'm very pleased with Suga being in the top ten (most knowledgeable)so far She would never have been able to answer any of those questions though!

Um, what's the right answer for question 1? Are we talking about what it looks like from the earth?

Just out of curiosity...

ezzer: What color is the moon?
Julie Tinkerbell: What's your favorite color? We can always customize.
ezzer: Who is your favorite baseball team?
Julie Tinkerbell: Who, who! I'm an owl!! Sorry..lol I'm in a silly mood
ezzer: Where are you located?
Julie Tinkerbell: I'm from Florida. Where are you from?
ezzer: What is eight plus three?
Julie Tinkerbell: Errr... 11?
ezzer: Who am I?
Julie Tinkerbell: Your name is ezzer.
ezzer: What is your favorite type of dog?
Julie Tinkerbell: My favorite dog is a dachshund.
ezzer: What does the Earth revolve around?
Julie Tinkerbell: I don't know, what does the Earth revolve around?
ezzer: What is your least favorite book?
Julie Tinkerbell: I haven't thought much of it, so I have no preference at this time.
ezzer: What's the worst thing about you?
Julie Tinkerbell: what do you think?
ezzer: What's the best thing about you?
Julie Tinkerbell: I like everything about I. I is the greatest friend anyone could know.

Meh, no major foibles, but nothing great either....she certainly doesn't demonstrate any real knowledge about any of the topics asked about.

Better than Frizella did:

Frizella: (to dallymo) Hey hey hey, it's faaaaat dallymo! Just kidding--you look just as great as you did when we last met.
dallymo: What color is the moon?
Frizella: That's hard to say. The color tends to change from time to time and I never know what it will be.
dallymo: Who is your favorite baseball team?
Frizella: I love baseball. Have you ever been to a big league game?
dallymo: Yes.
Frizella: There's really something grand about a big league game. I love the whole atmosphere--hot dogs, popcorn, the sun shining down, the roar of the crowd...it's summer in a nutshell.
dallymo: Who is your favorite team, though?
Frizella: Oh, that's who Slobodan Milosevic dated before that whole unpleasant incident with the cock.
dallymo: Where are you located?
Frizella: You should have been paying better attention! Where did you leave I located, dallymo? Honestly!
dallymo: What is eight plus three?
Frizella: 11, if I'm not mistaken. Although my arithmetic is a little suspect, so you might want a second opinion.
dallymo: Who am I?
Frizella: You're dallymo. What, did you get hit on the head or something?
dallymo: What is your favorite type of dog?
Frizella: Oh, dallymo--You've got to hear my new poem:

In the white afternoon comes the Canis familiaris,
With the faint suggestion of the helter-skelter plot.
How, then, to abnegate the demonsick bird-dog?
The heart disapproves to understand the feedlot.
dallymo: What does the earth revolve around?
Frizella: Simulo claims to be probably not going to try it.
dallymo: What is your least favorite book?
Frizella: I don't think I've got strong negative feelings for any book, actually.
dallymo: What's the worst thing about you?
Frizella: May I offer some advice? This has always been helpful for me to remember: If unit malfunctions, do not return it to the store. Contact the technical support number listed in the product brochure.
dallymo: Yes, your unsolicited advice is annoying.
Frizella: I guess that really only applies to electronic things; it's not like you'd apply it if you had bought a dobermann or a bottle of sloe gin.
dallymo: What's the best thing about you?
Frizella: Do you really think that it's possible to identify the best thing about me? I mean, it's really just a matter of opinion.

It's interesting, though, how having been through the first round of the contest has colored the way I think about this set of questions and how to have Frizella answer them while also anticipating the variations that are bound to come up and will need to be handled.

I tried to ask Fizzy these questions -- he logged out on me twice, and now is refusing to talk to me.

LOL!

Sonora's full of information about the moon... so long as you DON'T want to know what color it is. <0>

Ulrike: What color is the moon?
Sonora: The moon drifts just a little bit further out each year. Eventually it'll drift completely away.
Ulrike: But what color is the moon?
Sonora: *series of bizarre noises* Umm... Lizard throats weren't designed for howling.
Ulrike: So what color IS the moon, luv?
Sonora: *leans in conspirationally* It's not made of green cheese, you know.
Ulrike: Uh-huh. Agreed. What COLOR is the moon?
Sonora: Ya know, they think the moon was part of the earth until a big collision tore it away...
Ulrike: Lovely. What color is the moon?
Sonora: Ah, Luna. She's always gorgeous, isn't she...