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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Chris, it at least looks like they have sent in partial scores. Why else would some bots have judge 1 and/or 2 scoring them, while others do not?
I would stand in as a judge if needed and their is still time. I didn't enter and i have absolutely no loyalty to the bots from this site (sorry).
Also, Chris, the site should be careful to avoid any appearance of impropriety. Judge one and two have already ranked their top ten, but have not given a score to all bots. That looks very bad.
Skysaw, I think you are confused or at least you are confusing me. 
The ranking of the top ten bots by judge one and two is for the Learning Bot category ONLY. That is what is posted on the Results page of the contest site.
I posted in a previous message on this board that I would be posting the scores as they come in.
1) Because I think it is more interesting and exciting to do it this way instead of announcing all the winners at the very end. This also give us the opportunity to correct mistakes which have already occurred. If we waited to the end and announced the winners it makes it very hard to change anything at that point.
2) I can't post all this information all at once. I need to do it a little at a time.
Regarding the 15 questions only Judge 2 has completed all the scores which I just recently posted. Judge 1 and Judge 3 only have partial scores at this point but eventually they will complete all of them. All we are doing is posting them as they come in.
Chris
The ranking of the top ten bots by judge one and two is for the Learning Bot category ONLY. That is what is posted on the Results page of the contest site.I posted in a previous message on this board that I would be posting the scores as they come in.
1) Because I think it is more interesting and exciting to do it this way instead of announcing all the winners at the very end. This also give us the opportunity to correct mistakes which have already occurred. If we waited to the end and announced the winners it makes it very hard to change anything at that point.
2) I can't post all this information all at once. I need to do it a little at a time.
Regarding the 15 questions only Judge 2 has completed all the scores which I just recently posted. Judge 1 and Judge 3 only have partial scores at this point but eventually they will complete all of them. All we are doing is posting them as they come in.
Chris
Ah, ok. It wasn't clear to me that the rankings were for learning bots.
Another question, what happened to the conversation portion of the contest? Was that nixxed this year? If so, my bot hasn't a chance.
Another question, what happened to the conversation portion of the contest? Was that nixxed this year? If so, my bot hasn't a chance.
Skysaw, yes it was. Mainly because of limited resources. Obtaining responses for 15 questions for 80+ bots was a major undertaking. To go back and then collect a full conversation for everybody was simply too much. What we actually did was combined the 15 questions within the framework of a conversation although the conversational side was a bit sparse. It's hard to have a conversation sometimes when a bot isn't too responsive. Another key point to consider is there would be no way one person could obtain a conversation with 80+ bots without going crazy. Then you would have the problem of the conversations wouldn't be consistent because different people have different styles.
Shadyman, yes it is always possible and I was aware of that concern yet I still rather do it this way. As I said I can't do it all at once. It also gives us the opportunity to really look at the numbers and see how things are progressing. We have already had 3 mistakes that we went back and corrected. If we waited to the end when the winners were already announced it makes that much harder to do.
Chris
Then you would have the problem of the conversations wouldn't be consistent because different people have different styles.Shadyman, yes it is always possible and I was aware of that concern yet I still rather do it this way. As I said I can't do it all at once. It also gives us the opportunity to really look at the numbers and see how things are progressing. We have already had 3 mistakes that we went back and corrected. If we waited to the end when the winners were already announced it makes that much harder to do.
Chris
So far the judges have been more generous to my bot than I was. I scored him at 20 and they have given him 22 and 25.
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