Bot Contest

I dunno, I thought maybe they had some little ceremony or something for the winner. You know, one of those things where everyone dresses up and acts like a snob and then they all go to a fancy restaurant and pretend not to get food in their teeth.

I guess we'll find out when the time comes.

Yes, I, like Onyx, apparently, am determined to complete my internet activities without spending a dime. So far, I've been successful(video games don't count).

I wouldn't stay out of a contest you qualify for just because it's in Georgia, or because you don't have a thing to wear, or any such little reason. And I say that as someone who also has no money to speak of.

Speaking of georgia, why is Onyx named after a flaming piece of rock?

While we're on the subject, why is Butterfly named after a hallucinating insect?

And to quote a certain Zippy McSquirrel: "Who is [Shady]? Who is this [Shady] man? Either way, he's fat and yellow."

Quiet, fool!

Yup, I'd say STRMKirby might fool half the judges and win the first silver Loebner.

My screen name is a reference to at least two literary whatzits, both of which muse as to whether a certain entity is a butterfly dreaming it's a person, or a person dreaming s/he is a butterfly. What is real anyway?

It would be interesting to bug the Loebner judges about their screen names, too. I've already had some fun with Judge01, at his expense of course.

Well, just about everywhere I go online, I've always been Onyx in one form or another. And a couple years ago I was playing this one mud with a guy I was dating at the time, and we always named our party Crystal Flame. So here a while back when I found a place that wouldn't let me call myself Onyx, I called myself OnyxFlame. And then when I found a place that wouldn't let me call myself that either, I called myself OnyxOfBorg. Thus the history of both of my names in one foul swoop.

P.S. I think we have another mouse.

It'd be interesting if I went in Loebner and posed as a bot with some really brilliant responses and some incredibly stupid ones. I'd intentionally not win, because I don't want to get into legal problems.

Yeah, I've been thinking that a sadistic human could really screw up the whole thing if they wanted to.

I think they must have ways to make sure that only bots enter the competition. In the case of this site, I guess the easy way is to ask the Professor to confirm that all the bots entered are actually bots.

Well, considering that there's real money involved, a think a lawsuit would be daunting enough.