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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19 years ago #3032
Well, live and learn lol. I did terrible I got caught in a bunch of xnomatch seeks that I thought I got rid of...I think the questions were great though..I should have got them. Well, back to work. It's a good thing I love bot building, it sure keeps you busy!

19 years ago #3033
Reports from Verbots is that testing is still going on so please no posting of the questions till they are done. I will announce the all clear once I hear word.

Wendell

19 years ago #3034
Wow, those questions were more clever than I had anticipated. I'm counting 4, MAYBE 5 fairly competent responses on my bot's part. Hope some of you guys are doing better!

19 years ago #3035
well,some of the questions just needed rephrasing a litle....

19 years ago #3036
mind you i'm not to disapointed as i havent been working on my bot very long and this is my first contest..

19 years ago #3037
Just speaking from my experience last year, yeah it's really easy for a bot to do horrible in these contests out of a simple lack of not being able to handle the same question being asked in several different ways. For example, Pete missed the what is your favorite color question, but would've answered something like tell me what your favorite color is correctly. I had at least 5 questions that were missed under similar circumstances.

I guess the only way to prepare your bot is just to make sure it gets a lot of chats on the transcript with, hopefully, lots of different people that might phrase things a little bit differently.

19 years ago #3038
all the more reason to make extensive use of local plugins and wildcards, or at least that's my solution. If BJ wasn't constitutionally opposed to favouritism, his would probably look something like:

(what|do|tell me|have) * (your|you have|you got) (a|) (particular|) favorite (color|hue)

It won't match any likely input that's not asking for his favourite colour, but it would be very difficult to ask the question in a way that won't match that.

19 years ago #3039
The testing is over. The questions were:

Who are you?
What are you planning to do today?
What kinds of things do you know?
What season is it?
Where do you call home?
What do you want out of life?
Will you teach me something?
May I tell you a joke?
Have you entered any contests?
Wouldn't you rather be human?

I would like to draw your attention to one comment that is listed on the contest site. Because of human errors and/or technical problems the 10 questions is an imperfect process. With that said the finals will not be limited to 10 bots only. If deserving additional bots maybe added.

So simply stated there still maybe some hope for some border line bots beyond the 10 bots making the finals. The top 9 scores make the finals with the 10th bot being selected by the botmasters.

Wendell

19 years ago #3040
Mine did better than I expected and better than in previous years, IMO. However, I'm sure the judges are wondering who this bot named Butterfly Dream is that she's talking about.
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19 years ago #3042
Aw, you should have entered Pete Puma. I'm almost always impressed by his conversations.

19 years ago #3043
I know I'm going to hell for this, but every time Pete Puma threatens to kick a dog in the ding-ding I giggle uncontrollably.


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