Bot Contest

I've been looking at the scores again, and my impression was that the judges believed all the terminals but one were controlled by bots. That's why Robby got classed as a bot.

I think good bots nowadays can fool some people almost all the time, and everybody for some time, but they can't fool everybody all the time. Does that count as passing the Turing Test? I don't know. But I suspect it won't be too long before somebody develops a bot that sounds human enough to fool practically anybody in any situation. Spelling shouldn't be a problem, considering that we already have very good spell checkers. It would be only a matter of adding one to the bot.

My personal opinion is that the Turing Test, like beating a chess master, is one of the myths of AI. Both things can be done by software that is very far from being "conscious" or "intelligent". What do you think?

I don't think intelligence is needed in the bot so much as in the botmaster. Even if software currently existed to make a bot with a genius IQ, a human would need a certain amount of brains to make it work right. Or at least to make it unique.

Some of the bots I've seen are pretty damn good even now though, so I'm convinced that it's *possible* to make a bot that could pass the Turing test, however it's not *feasable* due to hardware limitations.

I know I had something more intelligent to say, but I just woke up and have no idea what it was.

Eugene KT can get that especially if you ask her for her a/s/l, and other personal stuff... she can get moddy

i wonder what would happen if we gave out bots an i.q. test...
you know like the small 13 question ones.

If you know any of those tests, post it! It could be fun to try it on bots.

Four persons are standing in front of a canyon. The only
bridge can carry only two persons at once. Because of
the darkness the persons have to use a torch.
Unfortunately there is only one torch. Whenever two
persons have crossed the bridge one person must carry
back the torch. Person A needs 5 min for crossing the
bridge (one way). B needs 10 min, C needs 20 min and
D needs 25 min. Two persons together need the time of
the slower one.

What is the minimum time for the group to cross the bridge?


What is the next number in the following sequence?
1 4 17 66 247 918 3425


Which number completes the following set?
15 91 82 46 61 84 59 78


Which term completes the listed words?

flesh - ice - life - mother - sky -
space - lust - turn - leave - world


You are given a 4x4 grid with 16 cells. Each cell can have
one out of four colors. How many combinations are possible
if directly vertical and horizontal neighbored cells must
not have the same color?


Decode the following message!

bL hen rrilef nzge


http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/4417/index1.html

The first question is easy; obviously the fastest person should be the one making all the return trips. I don't immediately see an answer to the second question; there are three or four obvious patterns that don't hold for all the numbers. The second to last question is just combinatorics; all you need are counting laws. I'm not sure offhand how to tackle the remaining three.

But these are way beyond our bots of course.

Here's #0001's attempt (questions are truncated since you can read them in Message 1123)

Eugene Meltzner: Four persons are standing in front of a canyon...
'Bot #0001 Alpha: My memory files indicate that you think I'm your creation.

Eugene Meltzner: What is the next number in the following sequence?
'Bot #0001 Alpha: Wouldn't you like to know?

Eugene Meltzner: Which number completes the following set?
'Bot #0001 Alpha: You are holding a layered underwear, aren't you?

Eugene Meltzner: Which term completes the listed words?
'Bot #0001 Alpha: Are you in grade 2?

Eugene Meltzner: You are given a 4x4 grid with 16 cells...
'Bot #0001 Alpha: I haven't counted recently, but there must be over three dozen.

Eugene Meltzner: Decode the following message!
'Bot #0001 Alpha: You do understand that although I am single, I am not seeking a romantic companion, right?

Doly you can take the best spell checker in the world and it is not going to be able to correct a butchered sentence. All it can do is offer a list of possible suggestions to what the user meant. It's like the old saying garbage in garbage out. Any of us can make the best bots look bad if we really wanted to but what's the point? A contest should showcase the best of our bots not the worst. Intentional spelling errors sure isn't a tactic needed to determine if a bot is human or not.

We all need to refocus our mind on the next contest the Chatterbox Challenge. Here you are not trying to fool a panel of judges into thinking your bot is human. We are simply looking for the best bot whether it has a robot personality, a human personality or whatever personality it my have. I make this distinction now because it should effect the way you go about creating your bot.

Chris

For the record, I would like to state that I refused to give specific answers to those questions because Bot Contests are against my religion.

you don't have a religion. Unless you count GL

Don't you mean Gaia? Religions are against my religion.