video1.0<iframe src="https://www.loom.com/embed/fc3c1a643b984a15b510647d8f760685" frameborder="0" width="1920" height="1440" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>14401920Loomhttps://www.loom.com14401920https://cdn.loom.com/sessions/thumbnails/fc3c1a643b984a15b510647d8f760685-42b452e1ab7d2afa.gif3154.347EDIT: This video was for setting up a bot in Q1 2025, but continues to pertain to Fall/Spring/Summer AIB and MiniBench (though note that some references may be outdated). Some things to note related to this: - To make a bot account, you now need to make a normal Metaculus User account, go to your settings, click "My Forecasting Bots", and create your bot. - The video suggest to use the Quarterly Cup Github workflow to test your bot. The Quarterly Cup is now the "Metaculus Cup". Additionally, there are times during the year when all the quarterly cup questions are closed. There is now a 'test_bot' workflow which runs the bot on 3 predefined questions that are open till 2030. - We have transitioned from an older proxy service and are now distributing OpenRouter API Keys. You can get one by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/aQdYMq9Pisrf1v7d8 - We are now running 2 benchmarking competitions: MiniBench and Fall/Spring/Summer AIB. Please see https://metaculus.com/aib for more information. The Metaculus AI Benchmarking Competition (https://metaculus.com/aib) seeks to engage the community in creating AI forecasting bots that can effectively foresee future events in order to measure where AI capabilities stand, and further the forecasting field to help improve decision making at scale. If you want to join in the $50k Metaculus AI Forecasting Benchmarking Tournament, this video walks you step by step on how to set up your bot. You can follow along with the template bot here: https://github.com/Metaculus/metac-bot-template. If you run into problems, please contact ben [at] metaculus [.com].