Comments on: Toby and Chatbot Marketing http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/11/11/toby-and-chatbot-marketing/ a blog and podcast dedicated to discussing text arts forms Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:40:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en Writer Response Theory 2004-2005 wrt@writerresponsetheory.org (Writer Response Theory) wrt@writerresponsetheory.org Talk Radio Comment-cast: Toby and Chatbot Marketing Comment-cast: Toby and Chatbot Marketing Writer Response Theory Writer Response Theory wrt@writerresponsetheory.org http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/iTWRT.JPG WRT: Writer Response Theory http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress 144 144 by: Jabberwacky wins Loebner prize with chatbots George and Joan at WRT: Writer Response Theory http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/11/11/toby-and-chatbot-marketing/#comment-15027 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:42:25 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/11/11/toby-and-chatbot-marketing/#comment-15027 [...] Last year, the Jabberwacky chatbot winner was George, a chatbot speech and voice-recognition enabled chatbot whose avatar goes beyond the Oddcast SitePal technology now common in online Pandorabots by displaying emotional body language to suit the topic and general mood. George has been getting a lots of press coverage of late, although this year’s winning Jabberwacky chatbot is actually Joan. [...] […] Last year, the Jabberwacky chatbot winner was George, a chatbot speech and voice-recognition enabled chatbot whose avatar goes beyond the Oddcast SitePal technology now common in online Pandorabots by displaying emotional body language to suit the topic and general mood. George has been getting a lots of press coverage of late, although this year’s winning Jabberwacky chatbot is actually Joan. […]

]]> Jabberwacky wins Loebner prize with chatbots George and Joan at WRT: Writer Response Theory [...] Last year, the Jabberwacky chatbot winner was George, a chatbot speech and voice-recognition enabled chatbot whose avatar goes beyond ... [...] Last year, the Jabberwacky chatbot winner was George, a chatbot speech and voice-recognition enabled chatbot whose avatar goes beyond ... by: steven streight aka vaspers the grate http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/11/11/toby-and-chatbot-marketing/#comment-671 Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:36:12 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/11/11/toby-and-chatbot-marketing/#comment-671 I tested Toby and found him pathetically deficient, a usability liability and not an interface asset. Vaspers: "Are you gay?" Toby: "What do you think?" Vaspers (thinking to himself, "this always means 'yes'".) See my post "Chatbot Toby disappoints" for the entire test. This is not a post promotion post, but a "Thanks" for depositing a comment on my blog, and explaining the false positive in Technorati searches. That enriched the content of my flagship blog, and I appreciate it. Will monitor this blog manually and expect to learn a great deal in an area of extreme interest, but I have not very good traction in. I tested Toby and found him pathetically deficient, a usability liability and not an interface asset.

Vaspers: “Are you gay?”
Toby: “What do you think?”
Vaspers (thinking to himself, “this always means ‘yes’”.)

See my post “Chatbot Toby disappoints” for the entire test. This is not a post promotion post, but a “Thanks” for depositing a comment on my blog, and explaining the false positive in Technorati searches.

That enriched the content of my flagship blog, and I appreciate it.

Will monitor this blog manually and expect to learn a great deal in an area of extreme interest, but I have not very good traction in.

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