Comment horse hooey (Score 1) 118
Sorry, but this contest is a total joke. It's even less worthy of consideration than the Loebner Prize Contest, which degenerated from a promising start into a meaningless attempt at self-promotion by a disco floor manufacturer who gets excited by seeing his face on a medal, and the mentally unstable people who enjoy wearing the same. The people who run both of these contests are totally unqualified in the field of AI, as are virtually all of the contestants. From hobby kids who just found out about IRC bots yesterday, to Richard Wallace's fake "ai foundation", this field is full of aimless losers. These guys (and they are mostly guys, and dysfunctional ones at that) just keep recycling the same 35 year old Eliza ideas over and over again, not knowing enough to understand how completely *not* new any of it is.
None of them have even managed to standardize any of their efforts, pool their talents to avoid reinventing the wheel, maybe have some kind of baseline to build on top of to do something new. There's just this confused mess of hype, hokum and ignorance. Every "bot" sounds the same -- either like Alice (which just sounds like Eliza++), or like some East European nerd on LSD.
Unfortunately there's nobody in between these totally unserious clowns, and the real AI researchers, who are trying to actually figure out how the brain works, instead of rediscovering parlor tricks for the 200th time.
These morons with their contests and foundations and whatnot are just trying, in their feeble ways, to make names for themselves. They are bottom feeders, fighting over the last remaining scraps of the old AI project that took off in other directions a long time ago.
None of them have even managed to standardize any of their efforts, pool their talents to avoid reinventing the wheel, maybe have some kind of baseline to build on top of to do something new. There's just this confused mess of hype, hokum and ignorance. Every "bot" sounds the same -- either like Alice (which just sounds like Eliza++), or like some East European nerd on LSD.
Unfortunately there's nobody in between these totally unserious clowns, and the real AI researchers, who are trying to actually figure out how the brain works, instead of rediscovering parlor tricks for the 200th time.
These morons with their contests and foundations and whatnot are just trying, in their feeble ways, to make names for themselves. They are bottom feeders, fighting over the last remaining scraps of the old AI project that took off in other directions a long time ago.
