Since 2008 the
Botprize competition has posed
a challenge to bot designers: Can you make a bot that will fool a human into thinking it is human? The competition is essentially a Turing Test for bots: Given matches containing both human players and judges, will the judges think
the bots are humans?
Unreal Tournament 2004 is a popular commercial first-person shooter video game
played online by humans. However, the game also features computer controlled
bots for humans to fight. Players participate in deathmatches, in which they
collect weapons and attempt to kill each other to maximize their scores. The game involves exploration of complex 3D levels to find items and enemies, chaotic combat against multiple opponents, and reasoning about the best strategy
at any given point in the game. It is hard enough for bots to perform well in this environment, but even more difficult for them to look like they are controlled by humans.
The most recent version of the competition is actually a judging game
in which all players, including bots, can use an in-game gun to judge
opponents as bots or humans.
In the 2012 competition, our bot UT^2 passed the 50% humanness threshold to win the grand prize! Earlier that same year, we also won the
Human-like Bot Competition, which is essentially the same competition, but under a different name.
The following are links to several news articles and other media regarding BotPrize: