Bot Contest

Onyx. Having just spent half an hour being driven insane by your bot I think you're going to need to work quickly if you're going to enter this thing.

This isn't meant to sound critical, you asked people to chat with it so I did. It's certainly better than mine anyway.

9 days left to enter the Loebner! I encourage all of you who think your bot has a chance to enter. It's a simple application, and then the rest is taken care of by the contest people. If PF bots get entered, I'll have to work a little interface up with them, and then we'll just have to sit back and watch the action. I plan to be there in person, as its taking place in Atlanta.

Regarding an idea from a month ago about being able to recognize plug-ins: It's surely something I can do, but again it's the speed problem. The AI Engine would have to scan every word in every plug-in along with all the Keyphrases, and that would really slow things down. So until speed becomes less of an issue, that will have to wait.

The $25,000 prize winner would have to be able to answer a lot of logical questions, to have the logical capacities of a person, to know a lot about the outside world, which no AI is yet capable of. So its best to set your sites on the $2000 prize.

Thanks, Professor. I think some people haven't entered yet because they are waiting to see if they get better transcripts... at least that's my case.

There's something I've been wondering: we can keep working on our bots till the very last day before the contest, can't we?

I entered the Loebner about a week ago through PF, but haven't gotten any confirmation email. Have any of you yet? Should I be worried?

i sent KT in, i got a copy of my application with my transcript, and then i had to reply to that email... careful you have to make sure you are not sending your confirmation to yourself, since it is a copy. after that they should send you an email stateing that will choose a certain amount of bots for the contest and just saying, hey i got your email, but much more elequintly then i have.

Damn, I guess I'd better enter again. I wonder why I never heard from them?

I'm entering 5 bots today. I'll post here if I get confirmations.

wow good luck professor!
i recieved my confimation about one or two days after i sent the reply stateing that i had recieved my confirmation. just to give you a time frame. TACKLE HUGGGGGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Everyone! ('cause i found out tackle hugggssssss seem to kill bugs in the forge...) SUPER DUPER TACKLE HUGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSS FOR THE PROFESSOR.

wooohoo! Tackle hugs!
(ooops maybe I went a little overboard on that last tackle hug... prof, you ok? Need a hand getting off the floor?)

Good luck, Professor!

I think I've talked with all your five bots... I hope I trained them a bit.

Trained them? Did YOU learn anything from the Prof's bots? I think you could learn a thing or two about tact from them

Anyways, I entered Steve in the Loebners, with probably around a 1500-2000 word transcript...Needless to say, thanks to everyone for giving him a workout recently, especially hats off to PaintPatricia for that lovely (uhh) 76-line long conversation (making it 38 lines each) and it made sense! OMG I'm in heaven!

I'm not into being tactful. Actually, I used to think I was a bit nasty, but after all those girls propositioning me, I don't know what to think...