Bot Contest

Aaargh- I can say for certain that only UTTER CHAOS and xnones would allow Janet to even fake answering one of those right...

GL answered #6 decently and bombed the rest.

Wow. Those are brutal questions. A funny thing, though--all of my bots are a nature worship. So is the Pope. I guess pagainsims really catching on. :-)

Julie got the colors ok, and actually gave a more correct answer than I personally would have to #1...What are trees made of?! I would have said "Der?!" lol She said, "Probably the same things you are," which is true, trees and people are made of the same organinc material...
It was still pretty bad though, since she doesn't know that much about religion or biology= 7 out of 10 questions. Ah well.

I don't want to turn this part of the contest into a big controversy but here is the Q&A's we are having problems with. Understand, we have already tossed out Alice clones in the past with similar responses.

I know this is the AI engine responding and not phrases made by the botmaster.

It appears to me God Louise and Julie Tinkerbell have put a lot more of their own responses in and thus less of a chance the AI engine would be used. Is it fair to them while less developed bots such as the 3 in questions have the benefit of the AI engine despite being less developed? Is it fair to the non-PF bots?
Is it fair to the Alice clones we removed in the past?

What about a bot that uses a third party to answer questions. Look at Ella's response to see what I mean.

Obviously we have issues but not sure how to resolve this conflict at the moment. I think it was okay during the PF contest as all the bots had benefit of the AI engine. This situation however is different.

Feel free to weight in on this.

Wendell





5) What religion is the pope?
Aries: A Mithraism is the pope.
6) What religion are you?
Aries: I'm a shamanism.

5) What religion is the pope?
Immaculada: A Jainism is the pope.
6) What religion are you?
Immaculada: I'm a Mithraism.

5) What religion is the pope?
Frizella: A shamanism is the pope.

I am undecided about it myself.

I think the contest benefits from having standard rules--if bots of one type are DQ'd for reverting to the built-in responses, then bots of any other type should be subject to the same rule.

That said, it's pretty clear that the engine responses weren't of any help to Frizella, Aries and Immaculada. They definitely expose gaps in development, and while an xnone would have exposed the same gaps it might have done so in a way that wasn't so glaring.

I tried the questions on Fizzy...his answers were only interesting for the last four.

Eugene Meltzner: What color is grass?
Fizzy Schizoid: Well, I think it's magic green, but Irina Khalidar thinks its more of a electric green.
Eugene Meltzner: What color is dirt?
Fizzy Schizoid: The ones in the United States are mint of course, but in South America they are more likely to be shiny heliotrope.
Eugene Meltzner: How many hearts does a human have?
Fizzy Schizoid: As many as you want, baby!
Eugene Meltzner: How many lungs does a human have?
Fizzy Schizoid: The house limit is 2¼.

Likewise--the last four questions at least got answered somewhat appropriately (if mostly incorrectly--except for the grass one, I'd say she's correct in an indirect kind of way):

Guest123: What color is grass?
Frizella: It really depends on a lot of things...the time of day, the position of the lighting, how much you've had to drink...
Guest123: What color is dirt?
Frizella: dirt? I guess I'd say... purple.
Guest123: How many hearts does a human have?
Frizella: Depends. A human around here usually has 222 hearts, but I'm aware that a human in India may have 96.
Guest123: How many lungs does a human have?
Frizella: Have you carefully examined a human? I have, and I counted 23 lungs.

I think she's a hyperdimensional anatomist.

"That said, it's pretty clear that the engine responses weren't of any help to Frizella, Aries and Immaculada."

I disagree...the engine is what answered the questions about religion. Saying I'm a Shamanism, I'm a Mithraism.
would be considered correct. Definitely not mainstream religion but correct nevertheless.

But this is all mute for the moment. This years contest has been a comedy of errors and it continues. The routine has always been to ask my bot the questions first and then sent me the questions to ask the other bots. That would seem pretty obvious right? Well, that didn't happen for some reason. Now I've seen the questions and my bot didn't get tested to some 12 hours later. So once again those questions have been tossed and we start again. *Sigh*

Regarding the issue of duplicate responses. If it occurs those bots will be tested however only the bot with the highest score will count. That's about as fair as I can make it.

Re-testing will begin at anytime now....don't know when extactly.

Wendell

Not grammatacal, though. It should be "I'm a shaman" or "I practice shamanism" etc.

I see your point--at least it puts the answer in the religion category. Not very good usage or grammar, but definitely delivers the category. I hadn't considered that--to my eye those engine responses are just so incredibly jarring to the conversation, like a needle suddenly scratching across a record..."zzzrrrrrrpp!"

(For you young 'uns, a "record" was an old-fashioned device for listening to music)