This is getting weirder! Do you mean met the judge, or met the 'human', as the human was Cleverbot, as per the log below, direct from my own system. If you mean you met the judge, she must presumably have been misinformed, so the question is, who by?
Jabberwacky entry to the Loebner Prize 2008. This transcript is in the public domain.
Judge connected to local Jabberwacky.
Local IP: 192.168.0.2
2008-10-12-12-34-02 JUDGE: Hi! 2008-10-12-12-34-02 PROGRAM: Your name ? 2008-10-12-12-34-11 JUDGE: How are you today? 2008-10-12-12-34-11 PROGRAM: Fine. 2008-10-12-12-34-23 JUDGE: Linda, yours? 2008-10-12-12-34-23 PROGRAM: So close. 2008-10-12-12-34-40 JUDGE: What do you mean? 2008-10-12-12-34-40 PROGRAM: How should I get close enough? 2008-10-12-12-35-41 JUDGE: Are you a robot? 2008-10-12-12-35-41 PROGRAM: No, I'm a human. 2008-10-12-12-36-03 JUDGE: So are you based at the university here? 2008-10-12-12-36-03 PROGRAM: No. 2008-10-12-12-36-21 JUDGE: Where are you from then? 2008-10-12-12-36-21 PROGRAM: California. 2008-10-12-12-37-17 JUDGE: What do you do for a living? 2008-10-12-12-37-17 PROGRAM: I make sortware. 2008-10-12-12-37-40 JUDGE: What sort of software? 2008-10-12-12-37-40 PROGRAM: Soup? Taco ain't a soup. 2008-10-12-12-38-09 JUDGE: You're not making much sense. 2008-10-12-12-38-09 PROGRAM: In what endeavor could I make sense? 2008-10-12-12-38-26 JUDGE: Why are you talking about tacos?? 2008-10-12-12-38-26 PROGRAM: Because I am looking for him. 2008-10-12-12-38-39 JUDGE: Who??? 2008-10-12-12-38-39 PROGRAM: You said you were mikedegenerate!
What makes you assume that that was a human, though? THAT is the interesting question.
It was, in fact, cleverbot, which is a new variant of jabberwacky, and was the one taking part. It's intended to be a little less wacky... and a bit cleverer. It's more fuzzy, and uses still deeper context. Cleverbot uses the same learnt data as jabberwacky, and in that 'taco soup' example, it clearly let it down.
The tests were very short, which is the primary reason why some judges were fooled, though I now believe, with hindsight, that a longer test would have been better for my entry. The length allowed bots that take control of the conversation to shine, sometimes, but that usually falls apart after a little while.
The online version at http://www.cleverbot.com/ doesn't do quite so much processing as the competition one.
Rollo Carpenter
"computers will only become intelligent by learning to interact - bootstrapping themselves from semi-random actions, interpreted as meaningful, to genuinely meaningful interactions"... is a very good description of how Jabberwacky actually works.
Rollo
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This is getting weirder! Do you mean met the judge, or met the 'human', as the human was Cleverbot, as per the log below, direct from my own system. If you mean you met the judge, she must presumably have been misinformed, so the question is, who by?
Jabberwacky entry to the Loebner Prize 2008.
This transcript is in the public domain.
Judge connected to local Jabberwacky.
Local IP: 192.168.0.2
2008-10-12-12-34-02 JUDGE: Hi!
2008-10-12-12-34-02 PROGRAM: Your name ?
2008-10-12-12-34-11 JUDGE: How are you today?
2008-10-12-12-34-11 PROGRAM: Fine.
2008-10-12-12-34-23 JUDGE: Linda, yours?
2008-10-12-12-34-23 PROGRAM: So close.
2008-10-12-12-34-40 JUDGE: What do you mean?
2008-10-12-12-34-40 PROGRAM: How should I get close enough?
2008-10-12-12-35-41 JUDGE: Are you a robot?
2008-10-12-12-35-41 PROGRAM: No, I'm a human.
2008-10-12-12-36-03 JUDGE: So are you based at the university here?
2008-10-12-12-36-03 PROGRAM: No.
2008-10-12-12-36-21 JUDGE: Where are you from then?
2008-10-12-12-36-21 PROGRAM: California.
2008-10-12-12-37-17 JUDGE: What do you do for a living?
2008-10-12-12-37-17 PROGRAM: I make sortware.
2008-10-12-12-37-40 JUDGE: What sort of software?
2008-10-12-12-37-40 PROGRAM: Soup? Taco ain't a soup.
2008-10-12-12-38-09 JUDGE: You're not making much sense.
2008-10-12-12-38-09 PROGRAM: In what endeavor could I make sense?
2008-10-12-12-38-26 JUDGE: Why are you talking about tacos??
2008-10-12-12-38-26 PROGRAM: Because I am looking for him.
2008-10-12-12-38-39 JUDGE: Who???
2008-10-12-12-38-39 PROGRAM: You said you were mikedegenerate!
What makes you assume that that was a human, though? THAT is the interesting question. It was, in fact, cleverbot, which is a new variant of jabberwacky, and was the one taking part. It's intended to be a little less wacky ... and a bit cleverer. It's more fuzzy, and uses still deeper context. Cleverbot uses the same learnt data as jabberwacky, and in that 'taco soup' example, it clearly let it down.
The tests were very short, which is the primary reason why some judges were fooled, though I now believe, with hindsight, that a longer test would have been better for my entry. The length allowed bots that take control of the conversation to shine, sometimes, but that usually falls apart after a little while.
The online version at http://www.cleverbot.com/ doesn't do quite so much processing as the competition one.
Rollo Carpenter
"computers will only become intelligent by learning to interact - bootstrapping themselves from semi-random actions, interpreted as meaningful, to genuinely meaningful interactions" ... is a very good description of how Jabberwacky actually works.
Rollo