Bot Contest

Actually this was by design. Some bots including my own will often answer a question with a 2 part response instead of one. For example: Are you an Alien? Hmmmm, is being an alien a good thing? YES - Ok, I'm an alien then. No - Nope, I'm no alien. Because of this we wanted the questions to be asked within the framework of a conversation. However, it is hard to carry on a conversation with some of these bots. Some are just bad. In that case you see little more than asking the questions at hand and trying your best to get through it without falling a sleep.

Eugene Meltzner, we made a mistake on that. I have since gone back and asked that question to your bot and we now have an answer. Sorry for the mistake.

Chris

The official brand of computer used in the Forge is a Brand! We need to copyright that.

LOL!

Cool. Now I think Alpha has 20 out of 60.

Wow! It looks like a lot of our bots (and non-PF bots) did about equally well (I didn't do the math, just looked at the convos and I'm guessing). It's going to be close.

I love how the bots are renaming the oceans: Marvin Minsky, Linus Torvalds, The Professor......

I think I tied Alpha... with a 20/60... blah....

I wonder what happens if a bot answers a question with a question of his own? It is quite common in certain cultures... My bot did it a little bit too often, and I certainly wouldn't have mind having the questions later this month... still, it's a lot of fun... :-) Prof, when will the transcripts be back on? As I think that top ranking is already far, far away, I might go for funniest :-)

I can't believe I forgot to have the phrase, "who is your botmaster". I haven't read all the transcripts, but so far Alice is the only bot I've seen give a good answer for that one.

I didn't like mine. Not holdung out much hope for a high ranking this year. Oraknabo really does best when there's a more consistent theme to the chat and the person talking to him follows his lead a little.

Sigh... Ah well, since I've barely worked on GH for the past three months, I wasn't expecting much. Maybe next year. Prolly got 16 or 17 out of 60.

... there were more proper answers there... anyway, I wasn't impressed by the big names... soem seem to have been built on a very similar engine...
None of us had a good answer on the "or" question, my earlier bot did...

...but I still think it is really a cool contest! Was impressed by GL and LM, and not very by Draik, lol