Bot Contest

Here I'll be posting information on various Bot contests that challenge and test a Bot's AI and realism. Feel free to post comments and updates on contests, as well as announcements for new contests.

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20 years ago #2586
I would like to know how to recheck the results, since I've already voted. At the time I voted and saw results, there was no one named smarterchild on the list. It seems like to only way to see the results is by voting again, which doesn't seem very fair...is thre some other way to check on it?

20 years ago #2587
In the past chatterbots were suppose to just be able to trick a user into thinking that they were talking to a real person. But now that they are better known it has become a race between who can trick the user and who can get the chatterbot to mess up.

however I have noticed that in doing the contest that various methods have been used to create chatterbots. I will try a contest not done before.The purpose of this contest will be two fold, 1. to determine the best method of AI creation and or areas that each method needs to improve upon and who makes the best conversationalist.

This way the chatterbot community can get into the serious business of creating a more life like chat bot that companies could use on their website.

In this contest botmasters will take the core personality and data based and attempt to tranfer it into at least 3 different bot programs, perhaps ultrahal or the pf or wendells talk bot or alice etc..
The prize money would be from a percentage of the sponsorship money, all contestants would have to display a banner code of all the sponsors on their site in order to enter and the winner would have to display the sponsor who donated the most money on their site for one year. The winner however will also be able to advertise their bot and method for hire on the sponsors sites as well.There would be a small entry fee of 5.00 usa money or comparable currency of the contestant for money to be divided up between the judges. a small fraction of the money from sponsors would be used to pay for the monthly site fees.

a list of the money made and where it went will be posted on the contest site after the contest starts.Because of the intense nature of this contest and the work involved for bot masters the contest would not start until may 1, 2006.

none of the sponsors, judges or the site owner of the contest can enter a bot. so none of my bots would be entered. The judges should either have a degree in computer science and AI or experience of at least 5 years of bot programming creation or research.

The sponsors would have to donate at least 100 dollars per 3 months of advertising on the contest site. nothing under a 100 dollars will be considered to be a sponsor donation, however a donation of a smaller amount would be worth a small text link to the person donating the money for a period of 3 months.

It will be held at Chat Bot friends ( http://www.chatbotfriends.com ) of course. I will be adding more details at the end of next week.

sheryl

20 years ago #2588
Yeah, I don't think Most Popular will necessarily go to the best bots. I voted rather early and saw Freakycowbot in very high rankings. No offense to whoever created that one, but it appears to be a stripped down Alice clone, and a poor one at that.

20 years ago #2589
Smarterchild is a free service to anybody but mainly geared to AOL clients. AOL alone has millions of subscribers. I asked Pat Guiney of
SmarterChild to tell people about the contest and Smarterchild's involvement. This is great publicity for everybody involved. As you know they would have to select 2 additional bots for their vote to count. I would like to see the vote count get in the thousands. The more people that become aware of this contest the better this contest will become.

I have also added scores from 2 judges on the 10 question finals at the contest site under "Scores". I have also posted the entire transcripts for all bots involved so people can see how they responded to the questions.

Best,

Wendell

20 years ago #2590
Ezzer - under the 'submit vote' button is a 'current results' link - if you've already voted you can click on that link to see the current stats.

20 years ago #2591
As far as the 'most knowledgable' scores, it's still pretty close - the top three PF bots are within a 2 point spread, with the #1 PF bot tied for 2nd place overall.. tied with Alice no less

20 years ago #2592
Another score from Judge 3 posted. Talk-Bot has won this medal I'm actually quite proud of him. I've had 5 sets of 10 questions asked of him (3 of which got tossed out) and he has been very consistent in every round.

20 years ago #2593
wow. That judge dropped Aries from the race. Quite a variation from 19 to 5 lol

20 years ago #2594
Well, everybody dropped off. I went from 29 to 17.


20 years ago #2595
Like ezzer, I can't see the popularity vote results without voting again.

And yes, that current results button doesn't work...

20 years ago #2596
where is everyone getting these scores from?

20 years ago #2597
Sheryl - at the contest site under Scores.


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