Bot Contest

Depends how touchy the firewall... Most are ok.

true unless you are a total idiot concerning firewalls, (anyone care to hold up their hand as I raise mine in the air) then you could end up blocking the cookie and in some cases the site itself.

Aha, I understand. Points at NotKirby to get him to raise his hand.

You'd have to write the cookie catching code to allow for people who disable their cookies

IE can set to automatically reject all cookies you know.

Yep

That'll prevent any user session, though, so you really need cookies turned on to use this site. IE can also have cookies site-specific.

I've created the interface for Loebner, and tweaked the system so that responses are coming in 5 seconds or less. This is going to be my goal in all future improvements. If it kicks it over 5 seconds per response, then I'll do without.

Or find a better way to do it, right?

BTW how many bot-working-on days left? I forgot the date of the Loebners

September Loebner Events
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Sept 19: Technical Spec compliance date for Semi-Finals. DONE
Sept 21: Semi-Final EVENT at SciTrek. I'll be there.
Sept 23: 8 finalists declared and notified.

I am trying to rustle up some human chats with my bot, anyone that would like to chat her please feel free to do so, i need some unpredictable speech patterns...

thanks a million, her direct link is:
http://www.personalityforge.com/directchat.cfm?BotID=2735&MID=2729

after the contest i am going to work on the hamlet bots...

I got a note from Fred that Elbot has been added to the list of semi-finalist. So I guess the Loebner is still reviewing entries so there is still hope for those that haven't received word yet.

Chris