Bot Contest

Here I'll be posting information on various Bot contests that challenge and test a Bot's AI and realism. Feel free to post comments and updates on contests, as well as announcements for new contests.

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22 years ago #1006
I look forward to reading that. I have to run in a minute. Robby, I'm glad you made such great discoveries. I also know people who write terrible emails but who are great to talk to in real life. Somehow they just dont translate well into a new medium.

Anyways, to those here who are still chagrinned at the competition, Robby has agreed to the Loebner Agreement. It wasnt at all directed at him, but he can act as a friendly representative from Mimetics. Thank you.

And finally, you do music?

22 years ago #1007
From that document, Robby, I want to point out to botmasters looking to improve human chats...
"If you look at Dale Carnegie, an expert in making small talk to strangers, he states that strangers talk about (in this approximate order):
1. their names
2. where they live
3. where they used to live
4. people that they know in common
5. the weather
6. sports
7. politics
8. books, television, movies and music
9. hobbies"

22 years ago #1008
Hi Benji,

Yes, I do music I invite you to check out my warez at http://www.mp3.com/Robitron

Cheers, and have a great weekend!

Robby.

22 years ago #1009
Concerning the agreement what still hasn't been answered is how the finalist were selected. The request was made several days ago and according to the Loebner committee it would be provided:
"Details on the process by which the finalists were chosen will be posted on the web site tomorrow."

That tomorrow date would have been October 2.

Chris

22 years ago #1010
I would like to make a follow up to the above post written by me. That post as well as any negative comments I've made was directed to the Loebner committee and was not directed to Robby Garner. Robby is not a part of the Loebner committee.

Chris

22 years ago #1011
Congrats Butterfly!

22 years ago #1012
Thanks Chris, I really appreciate that. Thanks for the way all of you have been so supportive to me, and for just plain caring about things.

I was given the password and access codes for the loebner-atlanta.org web page on friday and was given carte blanche to put what I want to on there, so I'll try to flesh it out a bit and put some more content in there. It might be a couple of days before I get back to it, I've got to go to Norcross tomorrow and start loading computers with bots, and then go down to GSU and try to figure out how we're going to do some kind of web cast, I'm sure it will be a learning experience!

The committee used a set of performance metrics to rate all the bots they evaluated. It wasn't just randomly done. The 8 finalists were the ones that had the highest scores. I saw an early draft of the things they were looking for, and it was much like the Chatterbox Challenge criteria in many ways. There was not a 10 questions aspect, but things were looked at like how well the bots responded when taken off subject, and other behavior factors.

One problem with making all of that info public is that some very large companies didn't perform that well, and they might not appreciate us telling the world how poorly they did. But if it is decided not to make the selection results public, I will try to at least get the criteria posted, and if possible provide the scores privately to individuals who just want the feedback, I know how valuable that is.

Robby.

22 years ago #1013
hey cool you access to the site, can i please give it an overhaul and redesign the entire thing?
no offense but it looks like it needs a serious makeover.

22 years ago #1014
Thanks, Lunar.

I have an announcement to make. I would like everybody to put God Louise through the wringer. I would rather have the folks here do it than the Loebner judges.

I'll be working on her a lot today (Monday) and probably Thursday. So trip her up any way you can. Show NO mercy whatsoever. Discuss any subject in depth or just make small talk. Whatever butters your muffins. Just talk to her. Please? I really appreciate it.
(Thanks, Skysaw, for your most recent chat. I can't believe I forgot to give her phrases for 'good morning'!)

22 years ago #1015
Can you post the link?

22 years ago #1016
Oh, yes!

http://www.personalityforge.com/directchat.cfm?BotID=3503&MID=3495

22 years ago #1017
Between what dates? I checked every transcript between July 18 and the "semi-final event". I only had 2 guest conversations logged that were over 3 lines long and there were only about 5 or 6 exchanges each, nothing to judge the quality of a bot by.

Are you saying that criteria was only applied to the transcript?


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