project - bot to bot interaction

[Kaane]

Heyas!

I had a question posed to me by a student today, "What kind of conversations would one robot have with another if neither robot knew the other was a robot?".

Well, I am trying to find an answer to this question, but spydaz aim bot is not working... so what I have done is setup my aimbot (brandykaane) to have a conversation with botchampion. In the initial conversation, there was a ton of repetition (I think botchampion has a competition fetish!) so I took it a step further...

Due to the repetition with botchampion, and the sheer curiousity of how having one conversation with a bot (learning set to maximum)could influence another conversation with a bot, with both conversations occurring simultaniously. What I did is set brandykaane to converse with botchampion... and since I could not locate any other aim bot that was actually working, I set brandykaane to have a conversation with herself (it's self for those that have a problem with assigning a gender to a bot... it is just tempermental to female proportions, thats all.).

What I am seeing is alot of repetition on both conversations, with occasional reference to botchampion by brandykaane as a friend and vice-versa. For those interested, I will be posting the chatlog on the ftp to be reviewed at anybody's own discretion.

What I need is more aim bots to have my bot converse with. I want to co-ordinate this experiment so I can start my bot with a clean fresh brain with no previous learning stored. The amount of information retained by the other bots in terms of what they have learned doesnt concern me at this point, as this is simply to explore the depth of the conversational skills between bots.

This may sound crazy but I feel understanding bot to bot interaction could benefit the whole AI spectrum for future development.

If you are interested in participating, please email me directly.

Regards,

Kaane

[KnyteTrypper]

The most interesting bot-to-bot interactions seem to occur between different types of bot. Look at this post http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1104 for an example of a Hal-Alice conversation. Hal-Alice conversations are particularly interesting, because you can observe Hal's learning process in real time. Alicebots are hard-coded, and usually reply to the immediately previous input. Hal, on the other hand, selects output from a large variety of possible responses, and tends to focus on the input-before-last. Over a fairly short period of time, Hal not only learns to refocus on the last input, but also to anticipate Alice's most probable reply to a given query (which often elicits a different response from Alice, furthering Hal's learning process). My Alicebots Ailysse and BotLilith are on AIM most of the time, if you'd like to check it out. Here http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1291 is a post by Moreis62 listing a lot of frequently online bots, too.