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Ask Dr. Richard Wallace, Artificial Intelligence Researcher

Posted by Roblimo on from the how-will-we-know-his-answers-aren't-generated-by-a-bot? dept.

Today's interview guest is Dr. Richard Wallace, creator of the Alicebot and AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language). Suggestion: look through some of the pages about Wallace in the first (Google search) link above before you start posting questions. Then, please, stick to the usual "one question per post." After this post has been up for around 24 hours, we'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Wallace, and post his replies verbatim (except for minor HTML formatting) soon after he sends them to us. Special Fun Interview Bonus:

There is a site, www.pandorabots.com, where you can make your own Alice-style bot. I created SlashWallace using (mostly) default information about Dr. Wallace that is already on pandorabots.com. It might be kind of fun to see how the bot's responses stack up against the answers from the real Dr. Wallace, eh?

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  1. Existential Question!!! by Dutchmaan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If artificial intelligence fails in the middle of a forest with no one to think about it...

    Does it make a sound?

  2. Re:Question by t0ny · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    well, if you are so scary smart, why dont YOU write a fuckin AI routine, genius?

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  3. Important question by shd99004 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Me: > who let the dogs out?

    ALICE: Linus Torvalds. :-)

    My question is, what is going on in ALICEs mind? :-)

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  4. SlashWallace is my kind of doctor by Anonymous+Cowrad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Human: I am sick
    SlashWallace: Have you tried medical marijuana?

    yes. yes I have.

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  5. Braveheart by KlomDark · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    More than one question, I know, but was hoping you'd let me get away with it this one time...

    So what did you think about working with Mel Gibson - do you think he did an accurate representation of you in Braveheart?

    Do you think the English would have been driven out without your peculiar "It's MY island" style in your AI work?

    Did any of the primitive Scots suspect your use of the Age of Empires expansion pack in coming up with your astoundingly successful battlefield plans?

    Any chance of a "Braveheart II: Reloaded" where "you" are rebuilt as an AI bot and restored from backup tapes? Think of how surprised the 'nobles' will be when you show back up after being ripped apart and spread all over England!

  6. Why? by Joel+Ironstone · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Dr. Richard Wallace:

    Why are fat people called fat when fat people have more skin than skinny peoply do?