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« on: April 11, 2005, 04:14:48 am »
Personally I think the judges should NOT be on the payroll.
Why would the need to have a college degree / 5 years of bot programming / research....? Do these requirements make one more adept at dealing with a bot as opposed to an ordinary, competent
human that might be interested in conversing with another human / bot? Ford...Edison...I don't think they had degrees, but they had ideas.
The idea was to fool a person into thinking the bot was real not a panel of paid researchers looking for every glimmer of doubt. Where's the fun in that?
I'm not trying to bust your chops, I just think your proposed criteria might need adjusting.
Wishing you the best,