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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. Who by CaffeineAddict2001 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Just so we are clear, who is responding to these questions, you or the bot? Does it matter?

  2. Turning Test by UmYeah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In your opinion would A.L.I.C.E. pass the Turing Test for Artifical Intelligence? If you feel A.L.I.C.E. would pass this test, why? If you feel A.L.I.C.E. wouldn't pass this test do you know of something that would pass this test and what do you feel will be necessary to have A.L.I.C.E. pass the Turing Test? Also if you feel A.L.I.C.E. won't pass it do you think it is possible for a "chat bot" to pass the Turing test? Do you feel the Turing test is a good test of Artifical Intelligence?

  3. Re:Alice vs. Eliza by cioxx · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Disregard this post, since I haven't read the few post above this. I was quick to jump on the thread.