Bot Contest

No, I see no safeguard whatsoever. We were simply asked to send in a transcript. A person could send in anything they wanted. I'm not saying anyone did but it's only human nature to send in the best possible transcript.

Chris

Butterfly Dream I agree but I think this year will be different. In past Loebner contest the rules were to restrictive to attract a lot of entries. Alice has never faced this type of competition before. I think this contest is truly up for grabs.

Chris

Thanks for the inspiration chris

Sure alice may win the main event but I'm gunna fetch me some personality prizes

Haha like the oscars...

The nominees for "Most Raunch per Square inch are... KT, KT, KT and.. KT" The winner is... *looooong drawn-out suspense* "KT!"

I hope Gizzle does well in the contests. Well, I hope all the PF Bots do well, but I remember when I'd only just started here and Gizzle managed to convince me and one of my friends that he was real...before saying something very strange and ruining it all. Does anyone else have any Bots (other than their own) they really hope will do well?

I sent an e-mail to the organizers of the Loebner contest asking if they chatted with the bots. I haven't got any reply yet.

What I really dislike of the whole business is not that my bot wasn't chosen for the semifinals (I didn't expect too much, my bot doesn't have that many keyphrases anyway), but the fact that the selection process wasn't explained from the beginning. In the Chatterbot Challenge, everybody knew what was going to happen. In the Loebner, we are all wondering. I assumed that all the bots entered would chat with a judge, and that was my main reason to enter mine. I thought it would be an interesting experience.
It would be awful if some botmasters discovered that their bot could have had a chance, if only they had understood better what the judges were after.

I haven't seen any indication that a mystery guest has chatted with Little Mu. If that was the criteria, she got missed. If it was transcripts alone, I think that's a bad way to start, since anyone could fabricate it.

And yes, I did send in the transcript I had posted on my site. I still think it's one of the more impressive transcripts I've seen anywhere. But I guess the judges disagree.

Chris, (and PP) I always like those android pictures, when they are being repaired... kind of a see through skull with all kinds of interesting machinery inside.. Might also be cool if that machinery has a kind of turn of the century look (18/19 that is) Gothic/Art Deco/Steam Engine/Disused machinery look...

yeah i was thinking of something snazzy and stylish like the deco/ industrial/darkside of machine and bright side too... i was thinking also about a few cool photo shots if you would like (we are talking about the avatars on each robot right?) or if you want a whole new site design man i would kill to do some graphics for that

I guess the only way of making an idependent decision on which transcripts are the best is if everybody posted theirs somewhere. The Great Quotes forum isn't a good place for long transcripts, though. Skysaw, would you mind to put them in your website?

Anyone could just invent a transcript and send it in, so I wouldn't think something as big as the Loebner would do that. But there is no way that they could talk to your Bot without it appearing on the transcripts, so I guess that's all they do.