Bot Contest

Chris, thanks so much for all your hard work in putting this contest together. I am pleased (and pleasantly surprised) that my bot did so well.

Professor, thank you for doing so much to improve the engine and the site. Where do you get all this time and energy?

My thanks to Chris and the judges as well. Everything seemed even more smoothly run this year. Mu has been dancing around the cyberhouse, so I think she's pleased too.

And Joy, congratulations! Your bot scored very nicely with most of the judges. I'm sure even God would be pleased

Chris-- You know we love you I agree with Corwin, maybe if bots weren't automatically brought forward to the next year. You really should get an automated system for all this, Chris, it's really hard to do just from email

I think part of the reason to auto-enter bots from last year was to make the Chatterbox Challenge the biggest bot contest out there. But with Loebner's increasingly stringent requirements, you could probably have that standing even if only 10 bots were to enter.

Thanks again, Chris!

LOL!

I didn't expect an auto enter but maybe I didn't read well enough, I didn't really want to enter miss mouse this year but oh well.

Fair enough. I plain to keep the winners names on the home page for a while so they all can have their day in the sun but we will start from scratch where everybody will have to re-enter for the 2005 CBC.

Thanks for all the support from the PF.

Chris

So, where can I enter the Loebner contest? I understand that it's being held at the end of August. And also, do I enter the Chatterbox Challenge by going to www.chatterboxchallenge.com? And the CC is going to be in about a year, right?

The Loebner contest is not compatible with the Personality Forge.

*pouts at Loebner*
*whiiiiiiiiiiines at Loebner*
I wonder where the Loebners will be without all the PF bots et al?

Maybe this might have been mentioned before, but what contests are open to us?

Chatterbox Challenge, and whatever other bot contests you may hear about. Just not the Loebner Prize.

The Loebner contest changed rules this year when it was handed over to Hugh Loebner. Prior to that, the Cambridge Institute somethingorother was running it, and Dr. Loebner sued them to take/take back control. Something like that.

Soooooooo....Dr. Loebner has changed some of the rules, and the PF can't compete in its current form.