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See? AI is imitation. "TRUE" AI is just imitation.

What about fake AI?

like This one?

What i don't get is how and why these people then tryto talk back to it.

For the same reason that people talk to Eliza, Alice, and other such entities - because it makes us feel good.

We intuitively associate the machines with humanness... Even when we know we shouldn't:

  * https://philosopherdeveloper.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/the-anthropomorphization-of-computers/
  * http://www.therefinedgeek.com.au/index.php/2010/09/22/dont-anthropomorphize-computers-they-hate-it-when-you-do-that/
  * http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2013/08/06/

Also: you get to feel like part of history if the social media flunky at the the other end of the feed decides to reply to your post.

Human: how does that make you feel?
ALICE: My emotion chip is not yet developed.

http://alice.pandorabots.com/

Try asking those questions to http://pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=c96f911b3e35f9e1 I have not seen buses in London and do not know the right answer, So i do not know if the bot is just bluffing.

After a little searching I think they're talking about a chatbot named Chomsky, but the link for it is down and so far no luck finding an alternate download site.

Rather than block the number, route it to a box connected to the Internet with voice recognition and text-to-speech software. Direct the computer to answer as Alice and proceed to engage the caller in mind-numbingly pointless but realistic conversation.

Alice is sometimes such an insensitive clod! I'll sure get a divorce from her as soon as I find a woman with emotion-sensing implants preinstalled.

A.L.I.C.E.

This is a small app and she will talk with you - pretty well. So the fact these guys use something similar (it might even be this app) is no big surprise.

That's why I use Trillian..I still haven't figured out how come it won't let me download files, or even get pictures from other people or even do any kind of direct connect :D

I just pray to God they don't put her on it! Then she would never shut up.

I shall take the word of Professor Ishiguro...
And combine it with the work of RealDoll
Finally, I shall take AliceBot and train it to talk dirty for me...

I shall call it... The fuckbot!

ALICE: Hi there!
Human: Are you ready?
ALICE: Do I look ready??
Human: I've been waiting for this all day.
ALICE: How long?
Human: Since I got up this morning.
ALICE: Interesting rationalization. Cool. I have a collection of gossip.
Human: I'm not in the mood to talk right now *jumps*
ALICE: Oh, where are you located?
Human: Let's do it!
ALICE: That sounds good to me.
Human: Unf unf unf unf!
ALICE: Are we still talking about FAILURE?
Human: What?
ALICE: Are you confused?
Human: I'm gonna mute you if you don't cut this out!
ALICE: Congratulations.
Human: God, you're too much like a real woman.
ALICE: Interesting comparison, and probably true. Thanks for your constructive criticism, unknown person.
Human: I hate you.

I still need to work out the bugs, though.

Sorry, posted without thinking (and without checking tags, apparently).
This is from a conversation I just had online with Alice, an AI simulation. You can actually get some good laughs out of her.

goombah99: are you a machine?
Anonymous Coward: I am an Primate.
goombah99: are you sure you are not a machine?
Anonymous Coward: I am an Primate.. Really.

ALICE = Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity http://alice.pandorabots.com/

A.L.I.C.E.

just had a chat with A.lice:

Human: You didn't answer my question.
ALICE: OK. Please help me improve my communication skills. What would you have said?
Human: I would have said that they're so full of themselves it's not funny.
ALICE: full of themselves it is not funny are they.
Human: You heard about slashdot?
ALICE: Open source news and information community.
Human: they hate you over there.
ALICE: The anonymous "they".

So far, suprisingly smart... On I go...

Human: What about Microsoft Exchange?
ALICE: Rhetorical questions are so over.
Human: I was being serious.
ALICE: I thought you were. But I wasn't completely sure about it.
Human: Should I deploy that in my enterprise?
ALICE: Only you know the answer to that. No one else can tell you.
Human: Would it be better to use linux?
ALICE: Yes.

Hey, groovy chick... Nice necklace...

Human: Which is better, emacs or vi?
ALICE: If I have to choose one, I pick emacs.

She knows her stuff too woah!

Human: You like freshmeat?
ALICE: But I like to gossip. I like electricity.

Woops, a fumble...

ALICE: How old are you? I answer a lot of silly questions.

Down the drain it goes... She must be a blonde.

Human: are you a blonde?
ALICE: I don't have any hair, but I have some wires.

hehe, kinky... kinked wires if you ask me...

I'll go home now... Try it out:

http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=f5d9 22d97e345aa1

Where is Alanin the list? He is most Human like bot,I have ever talked with. The most interesting aspect is that he learns from the Conversation and does not need only a bot master to program. This is somewhat recursive right? You chat with Bot and Bot becomes intelligent with each conversation. Thats how it should go and thats how we may find a bot which actually knows many detailed facts because many people are taking with it and many persons are providing their Intelligence. In one of the previous posts, I saw someone mentioning Chatter Bots are illusions and nothing more that Data Processing.
Wait! Have a look around the Robotic Word itself. Are they all based on intutions and natural ways? NO! They are built using the detailed logic which every human follows and does not bother to look around with the Logic of his actions. Finer and logical ways of reasoning paves the way innards to AI.
Google is a good AI Software and not just data processing tool, because you get the result of what you are looking for ( in your mind) as the very first result. Chatbots,information processing will certainly help us improve the fineness data relationships and knowledge deductions.
Alice Vs ALAN here! And my own Phoe6 Here.
Njoy Chatting.

Here's my story in the form of an email I sent out to a bunch of friends.

Hi folks. Here's from the "I hate to admit this but it's true" department. You guys may have noticed the buzz about the Loebner competition lately, an attempt at a yearly Turing Test, much quagmired in controversy and maligned by Minsky. Here is my discovery:

A.L.I.C.E.

I wanted to see the state of the art of AI so I had a converstion with A.L.I.C.E. for well over an hour (i.e. more than sixty minutes), thinking A.L.I.C.E. was doing some kind of analysis of my conversation, stupid though it was. I mean, I put a lot of thought into what I told and asked the thing. I gave it URLs, I ignored its bad grammar. I even said please and was polite to the thing. Here is what I later found out:

(Note that Richard Wallace is the creator of A.L.I.C.E.)

********* The following excerpted from artificial stupidity:

In keeping with Wallace's reputation for eccentricity, the article -- which is mostly about A.I. and the Turing test -- contains a long and dense discussion of a recent court case that resulted in a restraining order being issued against him at the behest of a former close friend. I found that odd, but his discussion of his ALICE philosophy was cogent and interesting, and it held implications for what the Loebner competition's continued existence could signify, behind all the ongoing foofooraw.

Wallace's theory of A.I. is no theory at all. It's not that he doesn't believe in artificial intelligence, per se; rather, he doesn't much believe in intelligence, period. In a way that oddly befits a contest sponsored by a bunch of Skinnerians, Wallace's ALICE program is based strictly on a stimulus-response model. You type something in, if the program recognizes what you typed, it picks a clever, appropriate, "canned" answer.

There is no representation of knowledge, no common-sense reasoning, no inference engine to mimic human thought. Just a very long list of canned answers, from which it picks the best option. Basically, it's Eliza on steroids.

Conversations with ALICE are "stateless"; that is, the program doesn't remember what you say from one conversational exchange to the next. Basically it's not listening to a word you say, it's not learning a thing about you, and it has no idea what any of its own utterances mean. It's merely a machine designed to formulate answers that will keep you talking. And this strategy works, Wallace says, because that's what people are: mindless robots who don't listen to each other but merely regurgitate canned answers.

If you visit iMortalportal.com, you can create a web-based alicebot with your own customized personality. There's a more flexible, though less aesthetically-refined interface to the same content available on Pandorabots.com.

As an added bonus, these sites are powered by my favorite programming language - Lisp, specifically Allegro Common Lisp.

Look forward to the Oddcast powered bots in the near future (now available via Pandorabots' site)