Teacher's+Notes

Teacher's Notes

 * 1) Improving considerably on the menu-driven bot presented in this Unit--at least with regard to entertainment value!--SitePal ChatBots can also provide convincing responses to natural language prompts. That is, they do a pretty reasonable imitation of Artificial Intelligence. In fact, thanks to oddcast's having partnered with pandorabots, org, it's fairly easy to raise the intelligence of a SitePal bot! Our original plans for this module did include two more lessons designed to provide Fake Steve Jobs with artificial intelligence. Due to course constaints, unfortunately, we ran out of time. However, Mr. Creamer hopes to implement those labs as time permits. If you'd like to check on his progress, email him at jcreamer@lbschools.net.
 * 2) Can a ChatBot "die"? It has happened before, as your students will discover if they do a web-search! When a chatbot dies, it does so, of course, because lack of financial support. That raises the question of how a chat-bot might support itself economically. Have your students consult the many examples at chatbot.org before answering.
 * 3) Advanced students intrigued with the idea of creating an AI chatbot like those hosted at pandorabots.com might consider entering one of the annual ChatBot competitions. There are a number of these. The most famous is the Loebner Prize (begun in 1990), followed by the Chatterbox Challenge (begun in 2001) . Chatbots.org lists the following contests:


 * ====== Loebner Prize( @http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html ======
 * ====== Chatterbox Challenge( @http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/ ======
 * ====== IVA Gala( @http://irgen.ncl.ac.uk/gala/ ======
 * ====== Machine Intelligence Competition( @http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/chrisn/micomp/index.html ======
 * ====== IEEE CIG( @http://www.ieee-cig.org/?page_id=119 ======
 * ====== Defcon AI competition ( @http://www.2404.org/news/worlds-deadliest-defcon-ai-bot-competition ) ======