I, am Landru...

As supreme ruler of Beta III, Landru the omnipotent master computer, fell victim to the intellectual ramblings of Captain Kirk. Kirk talked circles around the poor 5000 year old computer system, and made it let the smoke out. Luckily, AIML and JFRED bots aren't so easily argued with until they explode.

All 4 of the bots are working now. A minor internet glitch delayed the beginning of testing on Eugene, but so far so good.

I thought about trying to invoke the Buddhist symbol of the eight spoked wheel as a kind of logo for the Turing Hub, but settled on the penny farthing bicycle. I don't really get what it meant if anything in the television series, The Prisoner. There was just a certain connectedness that I could feel about it.

The Story So Far... Rollo has been the primary client for developing the Turing Hub Site. Rollo used the Turing Hub in 2005 as a training ground for his Loebner Prize Contest entry. It was much busier than earlier attempts with over 2000 turing tests completed.

I've just installed a voting system for offering polls at the end of conversations. I was using pollhost.com, but it had some inconsistencies that were bugging me, so I went looking for free alternatives and found this one.

I've drawn an information diagram for the site's future shape. What we have so far is pretty bare, and merely serves to test the various components that will eventually be required. Much like Disney World started out without Epcot Center.

Vladimir helped me with getting Eugene connected to my servlets, and Richard gave incentive to fix the ALICE interface so that it works properly now with pandorabots. I had been simply scraping a web page, but they have a nice XML setup, so that is better. I still don't have a way to make the system fallover to another bot if the one you are trying is down.

Turing Hub 2006

The Turing Hub is a kind of switchboard that connects people to chatterbots or other people for the express purpose of having a conversation with something and then being asked to describe what it was you were talking to. This activity is part of the Turing test. What follows is a blog about the automated Turing test called The Turing Hub.