N.Y. Times Magazine Chats With ALICE Bot Creator 238
aridg writes: "This week's New York Times Magazine has an article about Richard Wallace, the programmer of the ALICE AI chatbot that won first place in several competitions for realistic human-like conversation. Wallace sounds like a pretty unusual and interesting fellow; the article quotes an NYU prof both praising ALICE and saying to Wallace: '... I actively dislike you. I think you are a paranoid psycho.' A good read. [Usual NY Times registration disclaimers apply.]"
It will be funnier if (Score:2, Funny)
N.Y. Times Magazine Chats With ALICE Bot
hmm (Score:2, Funny)
/. Go Ask Alice (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot - Guilty of Murder (Score:5, Funny)
ALICE is survived by a grandfather TRS-80, her mother C-64, her sister IBM RS6000, and lifelong companion Athlon. In lieu of flowers, the family asks the donations be made to the Free Software Foundation.
realistic?? ya right .. (Score:5, Funny)
Hi, I'm Alison What's your name?
You: bubba baby
Alison: Don't call me "baby". Are you a man or a woman?
You: 100% man
Alison: Do you have any conditions I should know about?
You: what?
Alison: Didn't you understand it?
You: so what should we do now?
Alison: Right now? Oh. Whatever you like.
You: you know what i like
Alison: Interesting gossip: 217-person said he like.
You: 217? what does that mean?
Alison: Try to determine if this is a person or a computer responding.
Alison: Does "that" refer to "Interesting gossip: 217-person said he like" ?
You: this is making no sense, l8r
Alison: If you could have any kind of robot what would it be?
You: it would be you
Alison: You can download me for free! Or buy the CD Rom for $29.95.
(http://www.blivion.com/alison/)
Re:realistic?? ya right .. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hardly what I'd call AI (Score:4, Funny)
You realize that would disqualify most slashdot participants as "intelligent".
Re:Lucky fellow.... (Score:3, Funny)
Bipolars have one of the highest suicide rates (both attempts and completions) of any mental illness.
Re:Slashdot - Guilty of Murder (Score:3, Funny)
I was actually reading the NY Times website and tried to click through to see what this Alice was all about and was confused when the link didn't work. Weird. Then I realized that like all NY Times tech stories this one was now resting comfortably on the front page of Slashdot, allowing it's readers to do their dirty work and deprive the world of another interesting site for a few days.
It's becoming less and less useful to read slashdot - "News for Herds. Stuff that is by now being served from a flaming web server."
Re:realistic?? ya right .. (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, shut up!
Re:Chat with her cousin Ally (Score:2, Funny)