From: Robby Garner <robby@robitron.com>
Subject: Turinghub.com Chatbot Testing Services
For Immediate Release
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Turinghub.com is offering Chatbot testing services via subscription.
"Perpetual beta testing" benefits from steady traffic and at least a
suggestion of anonymity. Over 2,000 simulated turing tests have been
completed since April 14th with overall traffic increasing as the
Turing hub is linked to by various sites and forums.
Compare your bot's personality to other bots on a "humanity" basis.
Test results give realtime results of all conversations. Use the
increased traffic to help fine tune your bot and and improve
responses. Find out how people will get along with your bot before
you publish it to your website.
Turinghub.com provides a standard measurement of chatbot performance
with side-by-side comparisons with other chatbots, and ultimately
with real people. Currently the turing hub project is comprised of
chatbots and programmers who have volunteered while the various
components of the system are being developed and put into place.
To begin or expand your Turing Hub experience, go to
http://www.turinghub.com and subscribe. Botmaster memberships are $9.99 per
month with setup fee waived for now. Landru subscribers may view the
results page, but can not enter a bot.
Some of the top Loebner competitors are already using Turinghub.com
as their training camp. Rollo Carpenter and Jabberwacky have been
connected as early adopters from the previous incarnations of Turing
hub. Jabberwacky currently holds the lead in Turing percentage at
over 17.
John Precedo's Alex system is closing fast with Turing percentage of
16.7 after only 13 votes. Alex's "Right Action" index is a blistering
12.0 right now with only one error so far.
A variety of connection methods are available:
1) Put 2 comment in your web bot's HTML page.
2) Take the Java Hub Chat Room code and modify it to use other than
port 80
3) Use an alternative interface. Which interfaces appear the most
Human-like?
You can have any combination of these. For instance, if you want to
see whether one interface works better for the same bot, use 2
connections and test them both. Additional connections are available
for $5/mo per bot.
Compatible With and Successfully Interfaced:
ALEX AI
ALICE at Pandorabots.com
ALICE Program D
ALICE Program E
Elbot (KiwiLogic)
Ella (EllaZ Systems)
Jabberwacky (Yourbot compatible)
JFRED Servlets/Applets
*Assorted custom bots that use web forms.
Turing Hub Configuration:
1) Voting can be tracked by IP address.
2) Currently, visitors are discouraged from voting twice for a bot
and there is not an easy way to visit all the bots as you are
basically assigned to one at random. Landru subscribers and Turing
Hub members are able to try each entrant once they've cast the first
vote at random.
3) For botmasters to connect with, Java Chat Room Style interface is
available for customizing, or you may request binaries that are
compiled either with JDK 1.1.8 or with JDK 1.4.2 with some attention
to browser compatibility.
4) The Human Chat Room is open, and awaits the onslaught of web
traffic to enable human-to-human comparisons. In future revisions,
human users' accounts will show their own individual rating stats,
just like the bots.
For more information, contact
robby@robitron.com http://www.turinghub.com*assorted web bots include finalists in the 2002 Loebner Prize Contest
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