Bot Contest

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How is it that vague responses make for a great bot?

STRMKirby because it is impossible to answer every conceivable question with a specific response. What I was alluding to was Eugene Meltzner vague response of the why question is far superior than simply saying "I don't know why."

Chris

The trick is to be vague, but have it *sound* specific. There are a few places I feel I've managed to do this with my bot, but I'd really like to come up with some more. When they work, I sometimes see something in her transcript and go "wow!... how did she do that?" When it doesn't, it's a big fat flop.

Vague responses, in most cases, make a bot sound like a bot, not like a human. Good bots should have lots of keyphrases.

Yeah, but it will take forever to do it!

It takes forever for US as humans to learn these things, too. What's the matter with that?

Chris,

Thanks for the compliment. I find that vague responses can work fairly well, as long as there are a whole lot of them. The trick is to choose keyphrases that are not ambiguous. An xnone response is better than a vague response that doesn't make any sense.

Good bots take time.

it's cybertime anyway, maybe it does exist but where is it?

You know what I think it would take to create a good perhaps intellegence bot? I think honestly that a combined approach is what is needed. To get the botmasters of all the different types of bots to put their heads together, study each others format (so to speak) and try to come up with one bot that could actually reason.

Well I'm not out to create the most lifelike bot anyway. Predetermined responses will never let a bot think for itself. The definition of thinking is left for speculation, but it certainly wouldn't involve premade responses.