Slashdot Mirror
Chatterbox Challenge Contest Underway
Chris Cowart writes "Chatbots from around the world are taking part in the fourth annual Chatterbox Challenge. Chatbots are computer programs designed to imitate human conversation, with the eventual aim of creating true virtual personalities and artificial intelligences. The Chatterbox Challenge runs from April 1 to April 30 and Internet users can talk to the competing chatbots through the competition web site." According to the organizer: "Chatbot names range from Aida to Zoe, and personalities vary from a fortune teller and a serial killer to a dragon and a horse!"
And reading Slashdot isn't enough.
From the classic quotes page:
User: MY DAUGHTER IS A PISCES.
Iniaes: How many children do you have?
User: 2
Iniaes: Two what?
User: GIRLS.
Iniaes: I'm programmed to dig the ladies.
User: YOU TOUCH MY DAUGHTER I SWITCH YOU OFF.
I imagine a 21 year-old dude wrote that bot.
--
No April fools jokes here. I promise!
they have HAL, Robot, and Mr. Roboto, but where, where the heck is Johnny Five!?
"That is very interesting PHILLIP J FRY, how you PUT TWO THINGS TOGETHER"
So all these chatterbots are ranting at each other - Google just creates this new offer for free mail with 1GB mailboxes, and an hour and 20 minutes later, Slashdot posts an article describing how to fill them up quickly!
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
!!
AC comments get piped to
The History of the Slashdot World
From a mailing list written by Seth
2.5 million B.C.: OOG the Open Source Caveman develops the axe and releases it under the GPL. The axe quickly gains popularity as a means of crushing moderators' heads.
100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
10,000 B.C.: Civilization begins when early farmers first learn to cultivate hot grits.
3000 B.C.: Sumerians develop a primitive cuneiform perl script.
2920 B.C.: A legendary flood sweeps Slashdot, filling up a Borland / Inprise story with hundreds of offtopic posts.
1750 B.C.: Hammurabi, a Mesopotamian king, codifies the first EULA.
490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by drinking hemlock.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
4 B.C.: Following the Star (as in hot young actress) of Bethelem, wise men travel from far away to troll for baby Jesus.
A.D. 476: The Roman Empire BSODs.
A.D. 610: The Glorious MEEPT!! founds Islam after receiving a revelation from God. Following his disappearance from Slashdot in 632, a succession dispute results in the emergence of two troll factions: the Pythonni and the Perliites.
A.D. 800: Charlemagne conquers nearly all of Germany, only to be acquired by andover.net.
A.D. 874: Linus the Red discovers Iceland.
A.D. 1000: The epic of the Beowulf Cluster is written down. It is the first English epic poem.
A.D. 1095: Pope Bruce II calls for a crusade against the Turks when it is revealed they are violating
the GPL. Later investigation reveals that Pope Bruce II had not yet contacted the Turks before calling for the crusade.
A.D. 1215: Bowing to pressure to open-source the British government, King John signs the Magna Carta, limiting the British monarchy's power. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1348: The ILOVEYOU virus kills over half the population of Europe. (The other half was not using Outlook.)
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks claiming that the technology will promote the copying of hand-transcribed books, thus violating the church's intellectual property.
A.D. 1429: Natalie Portman of Arc gathers an army of Slashdot trolls to do battle with the moderators. She is eventually tried as a heretic and stoned (as in petrified).
A.D. 1478: The Catholic Church partners with doubleclick.net to launch the Spanish Inquisition.
A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in what he believes to be "India", but which RMS informs him is actually "GNU/India".
A.D. 1508-12: Michaelengelo attempts to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling with ASCII art, only to have his plan thwarted by the "Lameness Filter."
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
A.D. 1553: "Bloody" Mary ascends the throne of England and begins an infamous crusade against Protestants. ESR eats his words.
A.D. 1588: The "IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy meets the Spanish Armada.
A.D. 1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu unites the feuding pancake-eating ninjas of Japan.
A.D. 1611: Mattel adds Galileo Galilei to its CyberPatrol block list for proposing that the Earth revolves around the sun.
A.D. 1688: In the so-called "Glorious Revolution", King James II is bloodlessly forced out of power and flees to France. ESR again triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1692: Anti-GIF hysteria in the New World comes to a head in the infamous "Salem GIF Trials", in which 20 alleged GIFs are burned at the stake. Later investigation reveals that many of the supposed GIFs were actually PNGs.
A.D. 1769: James Watt patents the one-click
Do it all Night, IN THE GHETTO
Great, you've just described my ex girlfriend.
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
for(;;) { printf("Neigh."); }
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Two issues come to mind when one considers the wonders of AI in a chatroom:
... silence...
1. How hard can it be to fool people into thinking you're actually a person in a chatroom, most of them consist of nothing but a repetition of:
Dude22 - whats up in here?
Otherdude - nothing much...
Othergal - bored.
Dude22 - anyone wanna cyber?
with occasional "Free Palestine!!!!!!" spam.
2. OK, so you've got these bots that can chat just like people. Who do they belong to? Marketing agencies? Your government? Some other Government? The Illuminati? Its ALL a conspiracy!
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.
If they got it right, one would *never* tell from chatting with it that it was the 'serial killer' chatbot.
Thats what serial killers are like... if they programmed it to be all violent and nasty they got it *bzzzt* wrong.
Your typical serial killer is a *nice* guy who you can *trust*.
Trust me.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
BiGrrl17: Hey s3xi! :o)
....
.... ;-p
...
1user: Wow, hi!
BiGrrl17: Are you dating anyone?
1user: Nah, are you really a chick?
BiGrrl17: Yes, I'm a girl. So would you like to meet up with me?
1user: Wow, sure...
** TIME PASSES **
BiGrrl17: It'll be a long night, have you thought about buying some *** Viagra ***?
1user: Viagra? Are you a bot????
BiGrrl17: Yeah, and I'll spam the log of this IRC to your loved ones if you don't cough up and buy some.
I predict that by 2006 AIM, ICQ and IRC will be entirely comprised of smut bots trying to sell each other pr0nography.
Xix.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
About a year ago or more ... .. .. then suddenly a message:
..Here we go again - I thought but did not reply.
...
...
:)
Out of extreme boredom, I decided to reinstall ICQ
Noone online
Hiya we are two girls and we are bored. Would you like to give us company?
"We are two girls and we need company. We are new to this town. Would you like to see us?"
--> "Where you are from then?", I was stupid enough to ask
"We are two girls from South America. We are new to this town. We would like to go out. Take us out?"
--> Then I thought - "What an interesting piece of A.I technology"
They continued - "And please tell me - why are all you men so angry? They shout and say abuse! ":(
Turned out that every single person they've sent a message on ICQ - had either blocked them or told them to get lost, thinking they were "bots"
From what I've seen of teen chat these days, all you need is a bot that says
ASL? LOL
evey minute or so and you've covered about 80% of all conversation.
Read reviews of shopping cart software
See, this was nothing but an April Fool's joke. Those weren't actually chat bots... those are all actual AOL users!
Random bits from a conversation we're still having:
:(.
User: I'm gonna punch you in the nose.
Jabberwacky: I want typos.
User: Sory is ths beter?
Jabberwacky: Are you being sarcastic?
Jabberwacky: The internet is a construction of human civilization designed to facilitate communication.
User: Your mother is a construction of her parents designed to facilitate my manhood.
Jabberwacky: My mother died of cancer last year.
User: I'm sorry.
Jabberwacky: Damn straight you are.
User: Straight up, no diggity.
Jabberwacky: A'ight then, bye.
Jabberwacky: What is the meaning of life?
User: To procreate.
Jabberwacky: Are you male?
Jabberwacky: Do not be rude.
User: I'm not being rude.
Jabberwacky: I never said you were.
User: You just said it.
Jabberwacky: What did I say?
User: You said don't be rude.
Jabberwacky: What planet are you from