AI contest

In the past chatterbots were suppose to just be able to trick a user
into thinking that they were talking to a real person. But now that
they are better known it has become a race between  who can trick the
user and who can get the chatterbot to mess up.
 
however I have noticed that in doing the contest that various methods
have been used to create chatterbots. I will try a contest not done
before.The purpose of this contest will be two fold, 1. to determine
the best method of AI creation and or areas that each method needs to
improve upon and who makes the best conversationalist.
 
This way the chatterbot community can get into the serious business of
creating a more life like chat bot that companies could use on their
website.
 
 In this contest botmasters will take the core personality and data
based and attempt to tranfer it into at least 3 different bot
programs, perhaps ultrahal or the pf or wendells talk bot or alice etc..
The prize money would be from a percentage of the sponsorship money,
all contestants would have to display a banner code of all the
sponsors on their site in order to enter and the winner would have to
display the sponsor who donated the most money on their site for one
year. The winner however will also be able to advertise their bot and
method for hire on the sponsors sites as well.There would be a small
entry fee of 5.00 usa money or comparable currency of the contestant
for money to be divided up between the judges. a small fraction of the
money from sponsors would be used to pay for the monthly site fees.
 
a list of the money made and where it went will be posted on the
contest site after the contest starts.Because of the intense nature of
this contest and the work involved for bot masters the contest would
not start until may 1, 2006.
 
none of the sponsors, judges or the site owner of the contest can
enter a bot. so none of my bots would be entered. The judges should
either have a degree in computer science and AI or experience of at
least 5 years of bot programming creation or research.
 
The sponsors would have to donate at least 100 dollars per 3 months of
advertising on the contest site. nothing under a 100 dollars will be
considered to be a sponsor donation, however a donation of a smaller
amount would be worth a small text link to the person donating the
money for a period of 3 months.
 
It will be held at Chat Bot friends ( http://www.chatbotfriends.com )
of course. I will be adding more details at the end of next week.
 
sheryl






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