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Artificial Intelligence IRC Bots?

Posted by Hemos on from the creating-new-systems dept.

JonahC writes "dotcomma has an interesting programming challenge for people to create IRC bots with artificial intelligence and carry on conversations. With some development, good programmers and some luck, the bots should eventually interact with each other as if they are humans. "

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  1. Been there - done that by Sanity · · Score: 4
    About 5 years ago I wrote a very simple bot which matched regular-expressions and gave appropriate but generic responses. I realized after some time on IRC that conversations, particular those between males and "females", follow a pretty standard pattern. After 2 hours of hacking, I let my bot loose on the net. While some people spotted instantly that something was wrong, others spent literally hours talking to this simple program.
    Inspired by this, I did consider creating a trigger based system (a trigger being a regexp to match, and an output sentence) which used a genetic algorithm to assess the success of each trigger and to make the best ones "breed". There was also a simple "flag" mechanism to act as a memory. While I acknowledge that such a program could never pass the Turing test, the important thing to remember is that this IRC challenge is not a Turing test as (I suspect) most of the "judges" will be unaware that they are talking to a piece of software and are therefore more likely to give the system the benefit of the doubt when it says something really stupid.
    If any slashdotters are planning on entering this, email me, I will be happy to pass on my thoughts and knowledge.

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  2. I can see it now... by Masem · · Score: 5

    * HackerD00D has entered #warez4free
    -HackerD00D- any1 have all 5 gigs of quake 4? will trade for entire backstreet boys mp3 collection
    -ElizaBot- What do you feel about backstreet boys mp3 collection?
    -HackerD00D- oh man, their the gr8est! there 40th reunion tour was the bomb.
    -ElizaBot- So, you have feelings towards the bomb?
    -HackerD00D- what, me? no way d00d! Get off my case!
    * EschlonBot has entered #warez4free
    * EschlonBot rudely grabs HackerD00D and locks him away.
    * HackerD00D has left IRC (BUSTED!)
    -EschlonBot- Thank you for your cooperation
    * EschelonBot has left IRC (Obey the prime directives)
    -ElizaBot- Tell me about your feels on obey the prime directives.

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