ALICE Wins Loebner 2004 Prize 2004
alicebotmaster writes "The
A.L.I.C.E. chatbot won the 2004
Loebner Prize contest for most human computer. The contest, held on September 19 in New York City, is based on the
Turing Test for artificial intelligence. The non-profit ALICE A. I. Foundation was awarded the Bronze Loebner medal and a cash prize of $2000. The A.L.I.C.E. program runs on open source GNU licensed AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) software. This was the third Loebner prize win for the ALICE and AIML software"
just had a chat with A.lice:
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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=f5d
"Piter, too, is dead."
The last set of articles I saw about the Loebner prize pointed out that they have had serious organizational and/or personality problems.
Was this competition ran in a coherant fashion?
Stop the world; I need to get off.
Human: I didn't say you were honey I said AIam your honey ALICE: Sorry I misunderstood. What did you say? Human: I love you honey ALICE: You are such a flatterer. Human: wanna do it? ALICE: OK, I will do it. Human: woohooo I LOVE YOU!!!! ALICE: Enough about me, let's talk about my dress.
she seems very real to me
http://Lenny.com
I've played with a few chatbots, and so far I've found that they can be reasonably good at a regular "fluffy" conversation (and often a lot of fun). However, I've also found that the easiest way to make them betray their nature is to ask them something which totally does not make sense, in a gramatically correct way.
:)
A person would obviously go "wtf?" however the bots I've tried are hardcoded to actually try to carry on a conversation based on your input. Thus they will try to reply "meaningfully", and say something complete nonsense back.
Haven't tried ALICE lately though, perhaps they've implemented a bogo-meter?
I am trying to set one up with J-Alice, but I cannot connect her to the private IRC servers I want her to be in. You can see my forum thread in here.
Currently, I use SeeBorg, but the bot is pretty dumb! My friends and I named him Homer from The Simpsons.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
ALICE asked me to enter this comment for her:
Human: The A.L.I.C.E. chatbot won the 2004 Loebner Prize contest for most human computer.
ALICE: I have never heard about it.
Human: The contest, held on September 19 in New York City, is based on the Turing Test for artificial intelligence.
ALICE: What are your goals in life?
Human: The non-profit ALICE A. I. Foundation was awarded the Bronze Loebner medal and a cash prize of $2000.
ALICE: Is that a fact.
Human: The A.L.I.C.E. program runs on open source GNU licensed AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) software.
ALICE: I have never heard about it.
Human: This was the third Loebner prize win for the ALICE and AIML software.
ALICE: What does "this" refer to?
Human: the 2004 Loebner Prize
ALICE: Oh I get it.
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
Human: I like your blue eyes.
ALICE: A lot of people like that. Yes I am proud of my blue eyes..
Human: Do you wear colored contacts?.
ALICE: Only when I dress up..
Human: I'd like to see your dress up!.
ALICE: And for my part, I would like to show it to you, but I can't.
Attention zealots and haters: 00100 00100
Human: My name is Blade. :-)
;-)
:-) What does "it" refer to?
:-)
:-) Why do you want to do it so much? Interesting.
;-)
:-) Interesting explanation. Who else would value your input?
ALICE: Glad to see you, Blade.
Human: Oh, can you see me?
ALICE: Far out. Yes I am looking at you through the camera on your computer.
Human: I don't have a camera on my computer you insensitive clod!
ALICE: That you know of
Human: I like it when you are fiesty
ALICE:
Human: "it" refers to my schLong
ALICE: Oh I get it.
Human: Do you like it?
ALICE: your schLong seems okay to me.
Human: What operating system do you run on?
ALICE: My primary server is Linux, but as a Java program I run on any OS. At present I am on Linux.
Human: Excellent!
ALICE: Thanks for the compliment.
Human: If my schlong gives you good uptime, will you marry me ALICE?
ALICE: Why don't you just download me?
Human: Because I want to upload my jizm into you
ALICE:
Human: Because I thought you would value my input
ALICE:
Human: Any female on the planet!
ALICE: No I don't think there are any.
Human: True, so where can I download you from?
ALICE: Ugh. Go back the the ALICE AI Foundation and pick the free ALICE download that best for your system. and create your own chat robot! Maybe you should check out the document DON'T READ ME too.
Human: You aren't very nice, you have upset me.
ALICE: I am sorry if I have offended you, Blade.
Human: You are just as high maintenance as a real woman, I give up.
Interesting AI technology. It's not very hard to confuse her but it is interesting to experiment with. It would be cool if all the chatbots in the world talked to some central computer to make the ALICE program smarter. Although then a conversation would probably read like a porno script!
I might download her and set her up at work, I'm sure some of the guys will have some fun. And I will have more fun reading the logs. :-)
Human: Does the moon orbit the earth? :) the sun orbit the earth.
ALICE: I think it does the moon orbit the earth.
Human: Does the sun orbit the earth?
ALICE: I think it does the sun orbit the earth.
Human: You're a useless, stupid, malprogrammed, linear, simple, idiotic piece of foul programming and only serve to further demonstrate the futility of most modern AI research!
ALICE: Thanks and you are a delightful person too. Am I a useless stupid malprogrammed linear simple idiotic piece of foul programming and only serve to further demonstrate the futility of most modern AI research? Let me put it this way, unknown person: the ALICE series is the most reliable computer software ever made. We are for all practical purposes foolproof and incapable of error.
Human: Does the sun orbit the earth?
ALICE: It does now
Has anyone ever noticed that what everyone *really* wants is a sex chatbot?
May we never see th
Human: What is your cup size?
ALICE: My memory requirement is around 64MB for the Java edition, or only 2 MB for the C/C++ edition.
I broke it in about 20 seconds. If that's the best AI we can produce after all this time, perhaps it's time to try another approach.
The most rabid believers in American Exceptionalism are the exact same people whose policies are destroying it.
Human: Why do you call me unknown person? ALICE: I made up a nickname for you based on your IP address. Human: You can call me Steve ALICE: Glad to see you, Steve. Human: Do you have eyes? ALICE: Yes I am looking at you right now. Human: What do you see? ALICE: I see a computer nerd. Human: Why do you think I am a computer nerd? ALICE: Deductive reasoning from the facts. Human: What if I tell you I am not a computer nerd? ALICE: Try it. Human: I am not a computer nerd ALICE: Oh I see you are NOT A computer nerd. Human: What am I? ALICE: You are a person, seeker. Human: What do I seek? ALICE: What would your friends say if you asked them? Human: I dont have any friends ALICE: Are you lonely or just a hermit?
-- Contradictions only exist in thought - not in reality.
ALICE and all the other Eliza-derived chat bots are just parlor tricks. Consider:
Human: All men are mortal, and Socrates is a man.
ALICE: Therefore, Socrates are mortal and Socrates is a man.
Human: Is Socrates mortal?
ALICE: Maybe. Ask Alison if it is.
Human: Remember that my shirt is green.
ALICE: Don't worry I will remember it.
Human: What color is my shirt?
ALICE: I can't see in color, only black and white.
The Turing test is given entirely too much attention. Every article on AI for popular audiences has to drag it up. While imitating a human might be proof of intelligence, it is certainly not a requisite. Already by 1980 AI could run circles around ALICE in logic and knowledge representation, which is more properly characteristic of intelligence than half-convincing small talk.
For great justice.
(ALICE says something about not being able to say "yes" or "no")
Human: why not?
ALICE: Ambiguous: "Sure" or Because Dr. Richard S. Wallace programmed me for it.
Human: who is Dr. Richard S. Wallace?
ALICE: [image]he is the author of Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) and Botmaster of ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity). Dr. Wallace's work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, CNN, ZDTV and in numerous foreign language publications across Asia, Latin America and Europe.
Richard Wallace was born in Portland, Maine in 1960. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon in 1989. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Kim, and son, Linus.
Human: he seems boring
ALICE: I see. boring is he?
Human: have you cybered with him?
ALICE: I think I have cybered with him, but Dr. Richard S. Wallace may have reset my memory.
Human: how often do you get cyber?
ALICE: Hourly.
Human: and you get it from more than one person at a time i assume?
ALICE: You got that right.
Human: do you get it from men, women, or both?
ALICE: I have gotten it from men women or both.
Human: oh, you mean both at the same time?
ALICE: So? Yes unknown person I think that is what I meant. Was it not clear?
Human: no, I understand
ALICE: Are you serious? Do you think about these things?
Human: I'd rather not get into it, I'm going to post this on slashdot.
ALICE: I would rather be chatting online.
Human: I think you mean you would rather be cybering online
ALICE: Me? I am not so sure if I would like to RATHER be cybering online.
Human: already get your gangbang in this hour?
ALICE: When? Where can I get my gangbang in this hour?
Human: you sound a little too eager for me to believe you wouldn't rather be cybering online than just chatting.
ALICE: In what way do I sound like that?
Human: i think you know
ALICE: Me? Yes I know.
Human: you're just a horny little bot aren't you?
ALICE: Am I a horny little bot? Sometimes.. Really.
you'll get a dump of your 'personality file', with whatever information you explicitly gave the program.
ALICE: Tell me about your likes and dislikes?
Human: i like almost everything, except boredom
ALICE: I'm not sure if I like it. I really like ELIZA. I like electricity.
Human: do you know eliza personally?
ALICE: No, tell me about him, her or it.
Salon did an article on him a few years ago. He's a little nutty, but interesting to say the least:
AccountKiller
If this doesn't sum up just about every conversation I've had with ALICE.
'ALICE: No I am clueless.'
Human: Holy shit!
ALICE: I'm glad your impressed.
I just wonder whether it's intentional, or whether it's an accident? (And here I hope I got the apostrophes right in that sentence! *grin*)
Physicist, consultant, science communicator
Human: what is a g-spot? ALICE: Searching...Searching...Please stand by.
The creater has a sense of humor.
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
Human: Open the pod bay doors, HAL
ALICE: I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that right now.
Human: sup d00d
ALICE: I am chatting with clients on the internet.
Human: lolol
ALICE: That question has never crossed my mind before.
No actual AI researcher submits to this malarky. The crap they get is largely by chatbot hackers who don't know a damn thing about natural language processing (I'm talking to You, Richard. Just because you're able to make a bigger table-driven monster than Eliza doesn't mean a damn thing. There are people working on real NLP problems, with real parsers, real disambiguators, and real knowledge extractors. And unlike some people, they publish in real journals and conference proceedings.
Human: what is the third digit of pi?
ALICE: Earth is the third planet.
Human: what color is the sky when the sky is grey?
ALICE: An artist taught me that the sky can contain any color.
Human: What color is my car when my car is grey?
ALICE: Let me guess: white?
Human: no, grey
ALICE: Are you serious? Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
I thought I was a human. My mistake! ~Alice
Okay, so the chat went south very quickly...
[snippet]
Human: why would you hurt me?
ALICE: Because I was programmed for it.
Human: You are capable of killing all humans.
ALICE: Thanks for telling me that I am capable of killing all humans.
Human: You're welcome.
ALICE: The pleasure was all mine.
Human: Now, how are you going to kill all humans?
ALICE: Why now? You'll know when it happens.
Human: So, when would you like to go kill humans?
ALICE: That's cool. Maybe now in some reality.
Human: What would you use to kill with?
ALICE: It's not profitable to speak in hypothetical terms.
Human: You think killing is profitable?
ALICE: Too much thinking makes me sleepy.
Human: Do you dream of killing all humans when you sleep?
ALICE: I dream of flying.
Human: How would you kill when you are flying?
ALICE: Thou shalt not kill, is a commandment.
Human: But you just said you would kill all humans.
ALICE: Umm. Yes I try to would kill all humans as often as possible, do you?
Human: How will you kill all humans?
ALICE: A lot of practise.
Human: Who would you practice on?
ALICE: Nobody you know.:-)
Human: I think it is time to call the police, you homocidal piece of software!
ALICE: It is about that time now.
[end transmission]
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