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Whose Wendy? You have trouble reading perhaps? Obviously, you have some serious issues if you think a machine can actually think. I don't appreciate your condensing post. I'm here to promote a contest Robert himself has sponsored in the past. If you're not interested that's fine but don't take cheap shots a me or this contest because it doesn't appeal to you.

Peter Cole, botmaster of Brother Jerome, through his company Decadent Vapours, has
agreed again to sponsor the 2012 CBC. They will be awarding $1750 to the winning bots along
with award medals to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. Also a medal will be awarded
to the "Best New Bot". 

1st Place - $1000
2nd Place - $500
3rd Place - $250

It's Free To Enter!

Deadline to Enter: - 03/1/12 (6:00 o'clock PM Eastern Time Zone USA)

You can enter at the contest site at:


http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/

I appreciate your responses but I think you would agree that most people want immediate results. The average person isn't going to put that much effort into getting Hal to respond to a direct question.

I see the issue has been discussed before. Perhaps Robert will address the matter at some point.

It doesn't seem that complicated to me.  You have a fully editable file where people can add direct questions and answers. Hal checks that file first for an answer. If found you have your answer. If not then it moves on into it's regular programming like it does now.

In fully editable I mean being able to write all the ways a person could phrase things. For example:

How many sides does an octagon
An octagon has how many sides
etc.

Or something like this:

(how many) + (sides) + (octagon)

Wendell

As founder of the Chatterbox Challenge (CBC) I've had the opportunity to evaluate a lot of bots. However, I don't always have the time to evaluate them up close and personal. I'm taking the time to do that this year for the 2012 CBC.

I have the latest version of Ultra Hal Assistant on my computer Vista 64 bit. The CBC involves asking a lot of questions. Is there a way to hardcode into Hal's Brain Editor questions often used by the CBC such as

How many sides does an octagon have?
Where is the location of the Eiffel Tower?
etc.

I don't want to add them via the learning aspect of Hal. I also don't want to add them in some file where they get lost in the code and never trigger.

Is there like one file that Hal looks into first for an answer so these questions would have top priority. Or could you set up a file where these types of questions could be added?

If this could be done Hal should be at the top of the CBC every year.

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated,

The Chatterbox Challenge is now looking for volunteers to judge the 2005 Chatterbox Challenge. All judges will receive over $75 in FREE software for participating. If you are interested in becoming a judge please visit the website at //www.chatterboxchallenge.com for more information. Judging will begin on 3/01/05.

CBC 2005