From: Alejandro Dubrovsky (s328940@student.uq.edu.au)
Date: Mon Feb 10 2003 - 01:00:03 MST
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:04, gts wrote:
> By the way I read an article a few months ago (somewhere) about the best
> online chatbot in existence. It's the brainchild of some eccentric guy
> with mental illness who programmed literally tens of thousands of
> sentences into his program to allow it to reply to the real questions
> and statements from the real people who have interacted with it online.
> He just keeps looking at the inputs from real people and programming in
> new answers to those statements and questions he hasn't seen or
> programmed in the past. The bot works entirely by rote, with no high
> level processing whatsoever. The program has won numerous AI awards for
> its performance in the turing test, which is something of a slap in the
> face to most AI enthusiasts. In essence it is merely a very large data
> collection of typical real world communications, not much more
> sophisticated than an ordinary dictionary. Perhaps you or someone here
> knows about the program and can offer up some URL's. (I'm going only
> from memory here. I don't follow developments in AI as well as I
> should.)
>
Thats Alice. http://www.alicebot.org/ (source code, etc) Really an
eliza on (weak) steroids.
Article you mean is probably this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/07WALLACE.html
Interview with the guy:
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/26/0332225&mode=thread
alejandro
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