Exercise 14: Searching mechanisms, Virtual worlds and Cyberagents (2/2)

4. Computing ethics and bot programming case study: rocky

a. Get an account username and password form the lecturer to LC_MOO at http://ispg.csu.edu.au:7680 and login to the Welcome Lobby.

I use the account named “train8″ and password as “train8″ for logging in to the Welcome Lobby .

b. Hold a 5-minute discussion with Rocky on special topic. Commands and chat are entered in command box (bottom-left of screen in Figure 11) : act rocky (start bot) hush rocky (stop bot)


Figure 11: LC_MOO screen layout with the Rocky bot object.

Here is my discussion with Rocky. It’s very interesting!


c. Rocky is an ELIZA-like bot. Report your findings.
Rocky is an ELIZA-like bot. Rocky provided a corresponding response of a pre-defined instruction. You also can create an instruction by LC_MOO command.

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