Bot Contest

Belated congratulations to all of you! Great results this year.

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Stupid question--there is no way to "vote" on the Loebner is there? I didn't think so, but the web site is actually not very detailed on the selection process (at least not the page I read). Someone keeps telling my bots to vote (I know it isn't Psi). Unless it's Obmama, I don't know what contest is running that wants my vote.

No - the Loebner voting is all done by a panel of judges.
I'm not aware of any other contests going on right now, so (if the someone is a bot) it's probably a response that got put in before the CBC, and never taken out after.

Or if the someone is a person... ? Then I have no idea

hii

It's Guest153. (S)he is quite adamant about me voting (pretty sure it's aimed at me and not the bots), on two different days so far. Do I type like someone who doesn't vote?

Are you a Democrat? Perhaps it's Obama's latest ploy to play catch-up with McCain?

Psi, I am an independent but I vote Democratic by default most of the time. They are slightly closer to my views on paper, though in practice there isn't much difference between the two parties as both run on money from big companies and serve multinational corporate interests and both are willing to dismantle the US Constitution in the name of patriotism. I'll admit I believed Obama may be different early in the primaries when he took time out of his campaign to fly back and vote against telcom immunity in FISA but when he flipped on that saying the formalization of a "good Nazi" (I was following orders) defense was somehow a compromise and not a further abomination to all established legal principals, and then essential told us to shut up about it because that issue isn't important, I knew how stupid I was to believe we could ever get anyone into power who would actually represent the people who put him or her there. I will vote, because he knows no matter how bad he is, McCain is even worse, and even if he turns out to be McCain with a tan, at least Michelle is better to have on stage than looking at plastic faced "home-wrecker" Barbie McCain for 4 more years. But I digress. Maybe it is just a civic minded chatter who tells all the bots to vote and hit a few of mine.

HAHAHAH hello ppls and uummmm IROCK!!!!!!!! and well u too hahaha kidding XD<+2>

A judges perspective on the Leobner: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4934858.ece

(PS. Can people post here to bump my old political rant off? It's too late to delete it.)

The other correspondent was undoubtedly a robot. I asked it for its opinion on Sarah Palin, and it replied: ‘Sorry, don’t know her.’ No sentient being could possibly answer in this way.
arrrghh. I fail to see the humor.