Screw this prompt lets talk about politics Hello? I would just like to have a polite conversation about the viability of certain political ideologies and practices with someone, are you there? I feel that this experience could be very uplifting for the both of us as we challenge our views and understanding of the world by considering different perspectives.
I'm afraid I don't know all that much about politics... You a poli science major?
nope, just a woke college student looking to discuss current events with a fellow American
Haha ok
Also, I just make my messages really long to rack up points because I'm trying to get enough points to get a raffle ticket  for the MacBook. I also care very deeply about the AI research the people running this challenge are trying to do
Sweet! Me too I think AI is super interesting
I wonder whose in charge of this project and what they're hoping to accomplish with this study though, I feel like AI is so complicated that no matter how many conversations people have, they won't really be able to improve upon what we already have, you know? Maybe I just underestimate our computer science program haha
Yeah, I'm curious how they're going to weed through all these chats to program more "human" responses from the socialbot The explanation given for the contest just seems to be scratching the surface
Yeah, like I've seen some AI bots that attempt to have "human" responses and they always just feel kind of off. Sometimes what they say makes sense, but most of the time it doesn't. It was on the app GroupMe app which I feel like might have had even more resources to develop and AI bot and they still only had moderate success. I just can't imagine this one being much better
Was that also done by BYU?
No, I'd imagine that was done by the app developers of GroupMe which is a pretty popular cross device messaging app. I just bet they had more resources than BYU students do
That makes sense. GroupMe seems like it would be more effective because you can have multiple people conversing simultaneously Hopefully we'll get to see results from all this chit chatting! Maybe eventually we can see the robot
Yeah, I think AI is super interesting, I just don't really know how it can be improved upon through something like this, but I guess i'll just have to wait and see haha
Yup Do you have classes today?
Yeah, I'm in one now, but we aren't really doing anything so I'm just racking up some points for that MacBook entry. What about you?
Same, I'm in a finance class right now My professor tells lots of stories
We're playing kahoot right now so I think I'm good to be on here. I feel like finance might be slightly more important than career exploration, but I'm not judging. You do you I don't understand how you get to 7 million points though, like that seems pretty insane
Right?
how many are you at right now? ill probably be at around 100,000 at the end of this conversation
Most of the time, I can't get on because no one else is I'm at around 400,000 How do you like career exploration?
Really? whenever I've gotten on there have been people on for me to chat with. I think at most I've had to wait  is like 30 seconds to chat with someone
Really? Hmmmm Maybe my phone has a hard time connecting
It's pretty good so far. We really don't do much in class on a daily basis but it's fun And yeah, it was sort of hard to do it on my phone so I started doing it on my computer and it works way better.
Ohhhhh I hadn't even thought of that
Do you know how many points you need to qualify for the raffle this round? It said the cut-off was 300,000 for the October 5th session but I'm curious how many I need for this
You need 500,000 for this round
round. I know there's know way I'm getting first this round, but I might want to try next cycle and get of to an early lead to discourage others from trying hard. Oh shoot really? where does it say that? I couldn't find that info anywhere.
I got an email several days after the start of this round
Dang it, that's gonna take a lot longer than I thought, but I think I'm still gonna try and get the raffle entry this round since I'm already committed. Did they say what time the round will end on the 19th?
Last time it ended at 1pm, so that's what I'm assuming They'll probably amp it up again for the last round