Bot Contest

Joe Repka - I think it's to early to say just yet although there are a few things that could be improved or a lot depending on who you ask. :-)

Chris

Okay, I just sent the entry for Duo. Looking forward to next year.

*insane laughter* I took a little bit more than 2 years of French and I love it! I get a little overexcited when I hear French spoken... heh...

De qui parlez-vous? Le president, c'est... Chirac, non?

Two questions:

1) aren't all PF bots "website" bots?

2) the website address of our bot is the "Talk to So-and-so" URL, right?

Yes and yes.

i_have...If you get excited when you see/hear French spoken, you should find my botmaster absolutely thrilling! lol

Oh really? *has new respect for ezzer* lol

*eyes polaris funk* I admit, your hair -is- outstanding...but look at this nose, the strong jaw, the fine features? do you not see the hottness?

i_have_arrived - talk to DaMoyre. Romance languages are her life.

Hey, Prof, about the 'Loebner 2004 requirements', maybe you could come up with some sort of desktop program that lets you log in here, get your bot, and be able to chat with it offline. Or something along those lines.

That is an awesome idea. A downloadable program of your bot would be really cool. Where you could talk to it as if you were online, it would be much faster too.

The big upgrade I just hired someone to help me with (see AI Engine) will take us closer to that. But it'd still require PHP and MySQL.

Not that that's hard- it's free to install. They might come pre-installed on Linux. Mac OS X has PHP installed already. Windows doesnt have either.

But I'm still not creating a ridiculous character-by-character output system for Loebner. I have much better things to do with my time.