Bot Contest

Is there a list somewhere of the 16 semifinalists?

Not yet, but Chris is making an effort to put together a list.

aha

holy crap Elbot did not make it????

dear lord... * thinking KT might have bribed the judges with a few lap dances... sheesh Elbot is awesome... do you know if Mark Connelys bot made it? do you need his e-addy?

a few? I was there... She was giving away lapdances!

I've just sent an e-mail to Neil Bishop, asking him about all the points that were made here:
1) Were the semi-finalists chosen on transcripts alone?
2) If that was the case, why did they use such an unreliable method?
3) Why did it take them such a short time to decide?
4) How are they going to choose the finalists, and the winner?

I'll post the answer as soon as I get it.

Elbot was very good but maybe the ones that admit they're a bot are being disqualified?

Well that does seem to make sense, I mean the Turing test doesnt make much sense if the bots admit that they're bots, you see...

But Alice freely admits to it. Does that mean she didn't make semifinals this year?

...it wouldn't be an issue this year

The Loebner contest this year states clearly that bots can admit they are bots. This wasn't said before, but still, Alice won last year.
Besides, Butterfly, your bot doesn't believe it's human, either, and it made it to the semifinals.

There is another contest going on for us hard core amature alife and A.I. This is what the intro says: Program an intelligent robot controller in Java and win a Khepera II and a Webots PRO package. The url is:
http://www.cyberbotics.com/

No it does not belong to me in anyway, but it would be nice