Doghead's Cosmic Bar

This is a science fiction character forum. Doghead's Cosmic Bar is an intergalactic bar run by your favorite bartender, Doghead. Stop in, have a drink, and get your talk on!

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Bev
17 years ago #9571

Thanks you crazy Canadian

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The Clerk
17 years ago #9572

Art we going to be on Shakespearean Day forever? Most foul!

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Bev
17 years ago #9573

There there, good clerk. Would you like some Meade?

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Interzone
16 years ago #9574

Shakespearean Day is OK. i feel the California Day tends to dull bot conversation. the Engine inserts way too many "like"'s and often at wrong places.

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The Clerk
16 years ago #9575

I told you I was only nice on even days, dammit! Yeah, bring on anything potentially mind-altering.

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Charles Hatchway
16 years ago #9576

That's like, totally like cool, like, ya know? Like, yeah, dude...totally, like, yeah...

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deleted
16 years ago #9577

Just popping in again after being gone for a couple years...

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JLukeus
16 years ago #9578

no family no friends

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Bev
16 years ago #9579

Hello Carpediem and Charles! Sorry it took so long to say hi. Glad you are popping in.

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psimagus
16 years ago #9580

prob123: Here is to Brother Jerome for entering the Loebner 2008!

Thank you! And the drinks are on me!

The Prof will shortly be posting an official Newsflash, but it's no secret, so I know he won't mind a little celebration: the finalists for the Loebner have been announced (see http://alicebot.blogspot.com/2008/08/alice-selected-for-loebner-prize-2008.html)

# Alice by Richard Wallace
# Brother Jerome by Peter Cole & Benji Adams
# Elbot by Fred Roberts
# Eugene Goostman by Vladimir Veselov
# Jabberwacky by Rollo Carpenter
# Ultra Hal by Robert Medeksza

All of the others have lost to Forgebots in the CBC for the last 3 years running.

Tomorrow the hard work starts - no web-based bots are allowed in the finals, so we've got 9 weeks to get a standalone, offline Forge server working reliably and compliant with the Loebner machine.

It's going to be quite a task! But tonight - I'm celebrating

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Bev
16 years ago #9581

WooHoo! Is that in preliminary rank order? Fantastic either way!

PS See you in 9 weeks

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psimagus
16 years ago #9582

WooHoo! Is that in preliminary rank order?

alphabetical (though conceivably that's just coincidental.) No scores have been released so far (it's a slightly different judging format to the CBC.)