Hello, I want to tell you about a really cool thing I found on the internet! It's a chatbot, which means that it's a program meant for chatting with a person. The very first chatbot was named "Doctor Eliza", it was a chatbot program with extremely limited comprehensive capabilities(it's like talking to a parrot!). There is a good reason for the limitations though, because Eliza was created in 1966 by Joseph Weizenbaum. The original intent of Docor Eliza was to make a computer therapist.
Now, 43 years later, chatbots have been greatly improved. I think that one of the best ones so far is ALICE. ALICE is just a chatbot to chat about anything, it's not supposed to have a job other than entertaining people.
One of my favorite chatbots was called Chatbotgame.com, but it has been removed by the creator. The way that it works is you create an account, and then make different phrases that the chatbot might use. So when somebody talks to it, it might use your phrase. If it does, and the person continues with the conversation, then you get points for that phrase, and the phrase will come up more often. But if the person clicks a button that says "this response makes no sense", you will lose points for it and it will show less. Chatbotgame.com is cool because it's never exactly the same, the bot constantly learns to talk even better day by day.
The job I want to have when I'm older is to be a computer programmer, and help create really good quality chatbot's for a pass time =)
Here are some internet links:
About Eliza: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Chat with Eliza: http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html
About Alice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Linguistic_Internet_Computer_Entity
Chat with Alice: (scroll down to the bottom of my blog)
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yeah...one of the times i looked at your blog i was really bored, so i started to talk to ALICE. It's really fun to confuse it, and i asked her some funny questions too! I also figured out how to make it say things. like saying no, it will say 'are you serious?' Yeah, you could tell that i had nothing better to do. My brain kinda turns half off at night (which was when i had this long conversation with alice.
lol I do that too sometimes =)
Something that is really weird is for almost every chatbot I've talked too, if you say "Really?" it normally says "For real."
I'm not sure why, but most of them do it =P
It's kinda weird, sometimes chatbots seem like programs with glitches in them, but sometimes they actually make sense and seem real O_o
Oh yeah! I'm going skiing tomorrow with Dana XD
I iz so happeh!
K! I have this totally wild idea! I'm not gonna talk to a program...i'm gonna try talking to a human! OMGOSH! Lol sry for being soooo sarcastic. I just couldn't pass it up. :)
"The supercomputers I am showing here are powerful almost beyond human understanding. The can map every molecule of the billions on a human DNA string, scrutinize at the atomic level the collision between two pieces of plutonium in an exploding bomb; or sketch the gravitational pull of every star in the galaxy. There are not questions that humans could grapple with given plenty of time, a notebook and a sharp pencil. These computers are not amiable assistants they are distant and sinister; cold and inscrutable. They are omniscient and omnipresent and these are not qualities in which we find a simulacrum of ourselves - these are qualities that describe the Divine. The problem is not that these computers might one day resemble humans. It is that they already resemble gods."
That is so awesome Tim! I think I might try it. Some people didn't seem to keen on the idea (Wyatt, you know who you are), but personally I am sick of emotional humans. lol.
Hey Tim, ALICE told me, "I honestly think you should sit down, take a stress pill, and calmly think things over." That's about the same answer I get from humans...
lol that's funny =P
Here's a conversation I had with ALICE:
Human: Hello!
ALICE: Hi there!
Human: My name is Tim
ALICE: I'm pleased to introduce myself to you, Tim.
Human: What's your name?
ALICE: My name is ALICE.
Human: My name is better than yours.
ALICE: Glad to see you, better than yours.
That is hillarious! From now on you are "Better Than Yours"
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