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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."
Sorry bad formating
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
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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?
Originaly I had wanted the same thing. However when I looked into the program there was really no easy way to do it. As a result I ended up writing an ugly hack to the java source and while it worked it wasn't pretty.
Then a guy named Jacco ported the Alice code to C, and it being my strongest language I was quite estatic. I ended up collaborating with Jacco alot on his port, and eventually he ended up going onto greater things. This left me in charge as lead developer.
I restructred the Alice code to work as a sort of engine or library which (in theory) anyone could program a front end for. During the high points I had a bot running in IRC (via eggdrop and through it's own IRC code), AOLIM, ICQ, and thanks to Dr. Wallace CGI.
I long since gave up on the project and I don't believe anyone activaly picked it up. It was however an interesting experience. I learned quite alot about C, cross platform portability, GNU makefiles, and BASH scripting (one of the neat things was that I had automated the release process. I ran a simple script which would clean up my developing directory, package the sources in tar.gz and zip format, and copy them to the website, then it would modify the home page to show the new release and also email notifications to the alice mailing lists that a new release was available.)
Most importantly I learned about the politics of an open source program. As a result I humbly respect any and all open source developers. I spent quite a lot of time checking emails, answering stupid questions and slapping around silly programers who didn't quite get it.
Anywho, my reply doesn't really answer your question. And I'll admit I've been far out of the loop to know anything about how Alice is doing now a days (when I worked on it was back around 2000).
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: 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.
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.
Salon did an article on him a few years ago. He's a little nutty, but interesting to say the least:
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Human: Open the pod bay doors, HAL
ALICE: I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that right now.