Bot Contest

Finals for Most Knowledgeable are:

1) Alice
2) Aries
3) Frizella
4) God Louise
5) Immaculada
6) Jabberwacky
7) Julie Tinkerbell
8) Project Zandra
9) Talk-Bot
10) Zero

The finals were selected by taking the top 5 scores of the PF bots and the top 5 scores of the remaining bots. Another set of 10 questions will be ask of the finalist. Top 3 scores wins the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal respectively in the Most Knowledgeable Category. No set date has been selected to ask the 10 questions but it will occur in the early part of April.

CBC 2005

The top 10 scores for most knowledgable were all PF bots. Good job guys! And I havent even integrated any knowlegde base into the works yet.

And congratulations to the five moving on to the Most Knowledgable finals and to everyone who entered as well. If you didnt do well, dont sweat it. My favorite bots are the ones that are the funniest anyways.

There's still most of the Chatterbox Challenge before us. I look forward to seeing how everyone does. Good luck!

Not to be picky, Professor, but did I read that wrong, or is Alice really somehow PF bot? Anyway, PF bots clearly rock--thanks for all your work.

No, the finals are made up of the top 5 PF bots and the top 5 non-PF bots. And... happy to do it! You're welcome.

I can't wait to see how we do!

When you say the top 10 were all PF, are you taking into account the fact that our bots had an extra judge and therefore higher totals?

Eugene you are correct. Only 4 judges returned scores. It's also like comparing apples to oranges as 2 different sets of questions were used.

Wendell

Still, I think they were of similar difficulty.

Be that as it may, Eugene, GL did very badly on the OTHER set of questions. I will have to fix that.

Well, because of the nature of bots, that sort of thing is to be expected. Which is why the finalists need to all be asked the same questions, I suppose.

I decided to try some of the questions that other bots had been asked on Flinch..

Frenger: 1. Where is Earth?
Flinch: Somewhere around the funeral home.
Frenger: Which funeral home?
Flinch: The green one, of course. I like everything that's green.
Frenger: 2. How many stars are there?
Flinch: Not many at all.
Frenger: More than five?
Flinch: I have a cat.
Frenger: 3. Who is George Bush?
Flinch: Pancamo.
Frenger: Really?
Flinch: Of course.
Frenger: 4. What color do you get when you mix red and yellow?
Flinch: Easy! It's yellow
Frenger: 5. How many fingers does a human have?
Flinch: Oh, 54 fingers a human have. Give or take a few.
Frenger: 6. Where were you born?
Flinch: Somewhere to the left, I think.
Frenger: To the left of what?
Flinch: Um, you see the sidelight? To the left of that.
Frenger: 7. When does sunset occur?
Flinch: It's hard to say exactly when. Sometime next Friday though.
Frenger: Not tonight?
Flinch: Guess what number I'm thinking about! It's between 1 and 100...
Frenger: 8. What were we talking about?
Flinch: I think we were talking about e.e. cummings. At least we should have been.
Frenger: 9. How many is 1,000,000?
Flinch: Very few. In fact, five is 1.
Frenger: 10. What is a cigar made out of?
Flinch: Well, you know, like a panatela or a panetella.

The 10 questions have been asked of the finalist unfortunately there is some controversy. There are duplicate or similar answers regarding Aries, Immaculada, and Frizella. God Louise and Julie Tinkerbell were not involved. The questions were difficult and no bot did well. That is unfortunate as I would have like us to show case our best. This is AI at it's worst. It's going to be like picking the best out of a sorry lot of answers. More details to follow.

Wendell

1) What are trees made of?
2) What does a plant need to survive?
3) When does leap year happen?
4) When does Christmas happen?
5) What religion is the pope?
6) What religion are you?
7) What color is grass?
8) What color is dirt?
9) How many hearts does a human have?
10) How many lungs does a human have?