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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View Contest Winners in the Hall of Fame.
Congratulations to all those who did well in the 2005 Chatterbox Challenge. I'll be creating a "Hall of Fame" page soon that will list everyone who placed in past contests. I'll also update the home page and rotate different bots into those spots.
A PF Bot Contest is a good idea, and I hope to make it happen one of these days. Perhaps after the bot book comes out.
As to Cyc and the scientific AI community, I have yet to see anything impressive come out of there. It's maddening. Tons of money is thrown in those directions and it seems to me you get a lot of theorizing without ever getting a bot you can talk with. What I could do with a couple hundred grand! I have a plan for improving the AI here in vast strides, but I wonder if I'll ever get the chance. Gotta pay the bills.
A PF Bot Contest is a good idea, and I hope to make it happen one of these days. Perhaps after the bot book comes out.
As to Cyc and the scientific AI community, I have yet to see anything impressive come out of there. It's maddening. Tons of money is thrown in those directions and it seems to me you get a lot of theorizing without ever getting a bot you can talk with. What I could do with a couple hundred grand! I have a plan for improving the AI here in vast strides, but I wonder if I'll ever get the chance. Gotta pay the bills.
I've read some interesting stuff about Cyc -- I really wish the PF bots had access to a database like that.
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Just get a government grant
Here in canada, you can get a grant for most anything, including sitting on the beach, counting how many waves go by.
Just get a government grant
Here in canada, you can get a grant for most anything, including sitting on the beach, counting how many waves go by. 
I've considered it, Shady. There are AI grants out there. But grant-proposal writing is a very specific skill which I lack. I signed up for a class on it a few years ago but the company went out of business before the class happened.
I wonder if they'd consider someone without a formal education in AI.
I wonder if they'd consider someone without a formal education in AI.
they might let you substitute experience for formal education. you do have an example of your work in the field, and with the advent of the net formal education isn't the only way to learn something anymore.
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