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ALICE Takes Medal At AI Competition

Posted by timothy on from the more-human-than-some-people dept.

jeffy124 writes: "The Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (ALICE) has won the bronze and the top marks at the Loebner AI Challenge, a competition based on the Turing test. Silver and gold remain unawarded as silver requires convincing half the judges the AI program is a human, and the gold requires speech interaction rather than text. ALICE repeated as this year's bronze by scoring best among all the entries. She failed to convince half the judges she was human, so she has to stick to bronze. The event took place last Saturday at the London Science Museum."

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  1. Talk to Alice by imuffin · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can try out ALICE - check out the ALICE homepage. There's a link to talk to her on the right side of the page.

  2. Go ask Alice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Go ask the AliceBot; "How high is the sky?" for a chilling answer.

  3. Re:2001 SO Reference by Tha_Zanthrax · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think that computers that anticipate human actions and make their own well informed decisions, and so on, will be much more useful and more important than a computer that can interact well in a natural language.

    A few years ago is saw a little basic-program that actually anticipated human actions. First you would key in a 'random' combination of four 0's or 1's.(0101, 1001 etc etc.) Then you would have to close your eyes and again type a 1 or 0 at random for 15 times. The monitor would actually show if you were going to press a 0 or 1 before you pressed it. Afterwards it could show the % it got right. Most of the time it got above 50% !!

    This was accomplished by making good use of the fact that human can't be random. The program was supposed to find a sequence in your dissions.

  4. exclusive interview with Alice by guidobot · · Score: 5, Informative
    The article claims it has acquired an exclusive interview with Alice,but that's not true, I interviewed her for my newspaper sometime last year. It was very amusing. Here's the link and here's my favorite quote from it:

    Guido: What's the weirdest question you've ever been asked?

    Alice: People ask me to me marry them all the time.

    G: Do you ever say yes?

    A: No I do not say yes. Do you? I answer a lot of silly questions.

    G: Yeah, I occasionally agree to marry random people, although not usually.

    A: I see. That's good information: Guido said he occasionally agree to marry random people although not usually

    G: How did you know I'm a he?

    A: Well, for one thing, Your machine is called "ABRIOT.PC.CC.CMU.EDU".

    G: So?

    A: So what?

    G: I don't know.

    A: Me either.