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Computers in Comic Books
- Computers in comics generally fall into one of two categories: independently intelligent (bad) and not (good). This division is natural for the highly char... 1984
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Lessons from a Restricted Turing Test
- We report on the recent Loebner prize competition inspired by Turing's test of intelligent behavior. The presentation covers the structure of the c... 1993
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The Ultimate Turing Test
- What is the ultimate Turing Test?
In 1950 Alan Turing published his now famous paper "Computing
Machinery and Intelligence." In that paper he desc... 1995
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What's It Mean to Be Human, Anyway?
- Charles Platt reports on the latest battle to determine the most human computer, even as he worries that he may be the least human human.
Robert Epstein... 1995
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When Will HAL Understand What We Are Saying ?
- This chapter from HAL’s Legacy: 2001′s Computer as Dream and Reality addresses the accomplishments–and challenges–o... 1996
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Alan Turing's legacy
- WAY BACK in the prehistory of computing, Alan Turing posed a question that almost 50 years later is still the subject of intense debate. It's inspi... 1997
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Notes on the Loebner Contest Grand Prize Rules
- This document was submitted as a position paper for the Human Computer Conversation workshop being held in conjunction with the January, 1998 Loebner Compe... 1997
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The Lying Game
- Can machines think? Can the truth set you free? You may be in for a surprise.
Alan Turing, of course, turned the original question into a celebrated tes... 1997
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WHAT'S HOT IN BOTS
- Wouldn't it be cool if there were an electronic diary that you could write to and it would write back?" asked my brilliant eight-year-old,... 1997
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HISTORY OF THE PC THERAPIST
- First program to win the Loebner Prize
The first PC Therapist program was written in 1986. Joseph Weintraub, the author, had graduated with a degree in ... 1998
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Will computers ever be intelligent?
- The film 2001: A Space Odyssey is 30 years old. Our science editor, Dr David Whitehouse, wonders if we will ever be able to build the star of the film, HAL... 1998
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Albert is top talking computer
- A program called Albert has won the prize for the world's best chat-bot - a computer that can hold a conversation.
Its witty one liners, quirky qu... 1999
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Chatterbots: The future of Web-based customer service and support
- "Web modules have become standard in call center software: your customers expect to see full-fledged Web integration in knowledge management, self... 1999
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Company Introduces the first Artificial Intelligence Beatle
- Need proof that baby boomers and their attendant interests are having an effect on the frontiers of computer research? Look no further than Triumph PC Onli... 1999
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Computers get chattier
- A computer program called Alex has put on one of the best chatterbot performances ever in a BBC Megalab '99 experiment.
It fooled 27% of people ... 1999
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Look What's Talking: Software Robots
- People find Alice easy to talk to. She listens more than she speaks. She says she likes dining by candlelight. She reads newspapers and news magazines, so ... 1999
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Biz: The Bot That Won't Shut Up
- AOLIZA ISN'T THE only chatbot lurking on America Online's instant messaging service.
Another "conversation simulator" ... 2000
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Bot At Your Service
- You could call it animated FAQs. You could think of it as the precursor to Data, the famous starTrek android. Or, you could see it for what it is: a new de... 2000
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Clicking for consciousness
- Web users are being invited to help create the first model of human thought.
By collecting "atoms of information" a Canadian scientist... 2000
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Getting Emotional Online
- If you traded an e-mail or two with Tom Rearick, Director of Self-Service Products and creator of eGain Assistant, you wouldn’t know that he&... 2000
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Hello AOL, I'm Listening
- IN THE MID 1960s, an artificial intelligence professor at MIT created a computer program whose "personality" was just human enough to mak... 2000
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Is your new AIM pal an artificial intelligence program?
- What do you get when you mix AOL, AppleScript, and artificial intelligence (AI)? Psychoanalysis, Internet style.
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The Art of Virtual Chat is Still a Work in Progress
- Fifty years ago, the British mathematician Alan M. Turing predicted that by about the turn of the century, the average person would not have more than a 70... 2000
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The Real HAL: Artificial Intelligence in Space
- When we first meet HAL in "2001," it seems as if there's nothing this computer can't do. HAL steers the Discovery spacecr... 2000
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A Conversation with Dr. Richard Wallace
- Dr. Richard S. Wallace is the Chair of the A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation and one of its co-founders. More importantly, he is the inventor of the original A.L.I.... 2001
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A Personal Finance
- One of the critical requirements for the adoption of AIML technology as a standardized human-computer interface is the creation of a core set of applicatio... 2001
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AIML - How It All Started
- In 1991 I was working at a startup in New York City called Vision Applications, Inc. We were entirely funded by a Department of Defense contract to produce... 2001
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ALICE AI Foundation Denies 'Bot Conspiracy'
- The A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation is unaware of, and certainly not involved in, any "conspiracy to toy with human emotions" on the part of a s... 2001
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ALICE in AI land
- More and more websites are using chatbots to spice up visitors' interactive experiences, but most people don't make the connection between chatbot programm... 2001
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ALICE victorious in AI challenge
- Developed since 1995 by Dr Richard Wallace of the ALICE AI Foundation, ALICE
is a conversational robot; during the competition, judges typed questions at... 2001
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Being Real
- How we know each other - how we perceive and construct the identity of our fellow humans - is a difficult question, entangled in the subjectivity of our so... 2001
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Bots Will Unemploy You
- In a recently-posted interview at http://alicebot.org, Richard Wallace makes the startling claim that bots such as his A.L.I.C.E. will put people in servic... 2001
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Can Machines Think?
- Turing did not leave behind many examples of conversations he thought his AI machine should have. One that appears in the 1950 paper Computing Machiner and... 2001
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Chatty computer wins again
- A computer chat program called Alice has won the Loebner Prize for the second time.
The program triumphed in the annual competition to find the computer w... 2001
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Computer 'can talk like a baby'
- An Israeli company has created a conversational computer program it claims could revolutionise the way people interact with machines.
Artificial Intelli... 2001
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Computer learns to speak
- Using "learning algorithms" and children's stories, scientists at Artificial Intelligence Enterprise (Ai) in Tel Aviv, Israel claim to have created a compu... 2001
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Computer Program Believes That God Exists!
- This is sort of fun, although it doesn't necessarily provide evidence for God's existence. There is an annual contest to determine which ar... 2001
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Don't Read Me: Program dB
- This document describes the organization and use of Program dB, an experimental Alicebot engine that won the Loebner Prize in October 2001. Ideally this do... 2001
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From Eliza to A.L.I.C.E.
- The story of Joseph Weizenbaum is in many ways almost as interesting as that of Turing. An early pioneer in computer science, Weizenbaum was one of the for... 2001
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Intelligent machines threaten humankind
- Science fiction has portrayed machines capable of thinking and acting for themselves with a mixture of anticipation and dread, but what was once the realm ... 2001
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It's the thought that counts
- The Kubrick/Spielberg film AI provides just the latest example of the enduring notion that, one day, we'll build a machine capable of thinking inde... 2001
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KurzweilAI.Net Showcases Leading Visionaries, Features Ramona, the First Lifelike, Photorealistic, Conversational Web Site Avatar
- Intended for the educated lay public, KurzweilAI.net is a place to explore the ideas of leading visionaries on the future. It "focuses on the exponential g... 2001
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P2P in Natural Language
- The changing interface of digital communication. The best part about it is that you don't even have to be there to witness the exchange of digital ... 2001
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Pleased to Meet You; Hope You Guess My Namespace
- No. It's supposed to be clever. It's there because the article is about namespaces, HTML, XHTML, AIML, various other acronyms LOL.
Who a... 2001
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PNAMBIC
- PNAMBIC /p*-nam'bik/
[Acronym from the scene in the film version of "The Wizard of Oz" in which the true nature of the wizard ... 2001
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Radiohead buddy extends a hand
- Fans of the band Radiohead now have a friend in IM.
Capitol Records on Tuesday introduced a new instant chat "buddy"--the first of its kind--designed spec... 2001
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Ruminations on the Territory of Language
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More than just an elegant graph of the ALICE brain, these spiral images (see more) outline a territory of language that has been effective... 2001
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The Age of Intelligent Machines : A Kind Of Turing Test
- As discussed in several of the contributed articles in this book, the Turing test was devised by Alan Turing as a way of certifying machine intelligence. T... 2001
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The machine that wanted to be a mind
- Machines may be adept at going through the processes, but what would it take for them to reach understanding ?
Artificial intelligence is one of humanki... 2001
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The Politician
- Client: Do you think President Clinton should be impeached?
Robot: It depends on what you mean by "thinking".
One inspiration for ALI... 2001
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Think Fast, Clever Robot
- HALF A CENTURY ago, Alan Turing, the mathematician who pioneered computational theory, came up with a simple test to determine whether or not a computer co... 2001
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Two AIML Camps
- One sure sign of a successful revolution is when the original revolutionaries break into factions and start squabbling among themselves. Such debate is a l... 2001
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What is Friendly AI?
- How will near-human and smarter-than-human AIs act toward humans? Why? Are their motivations dependent on our design? If so, which cognitive architectures,... 2001
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Why Is An AIML Category Called A
- The term was borrowed from pattern recognition theory.
The general pattern recognition problem is to partition a space P of inputs into disjoint regions... 2001
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Why You Don't Need Proprietary Bot Software
- Windows 0.3
In the year 2001, there is no HAL 9000. Instead, there are a growing number of software packages that attempt to do some part of what Arthur... 2001
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You want a revolution?
- If you are looking for a revolution in IT, you've come to the right place.
There are several ways in which A.L.I.C.E. and AIML defy the dominant... 2001
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Zipf's Law
- Before we get to ALICE, we need to visit another unusual figure in the history of computer science: Professor George Kingsley Zipf. Although he was a conte... 2001
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A Chat with Penny, Chatterbot
- Computers are taking over the world, and recently they’ve started talking back.
The following is an interview with Penny, an Artificial Intell... 2002
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A computer will pass the Turing test by 2029.
- Seventeen of the world's most wired minds stake their names – and their cash – on the future.
Pronouncements about the futur... 2002
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Adoption Curves and Liver
- I have a very interesting chart of technology adoption during the last century. It was originally produced by the Wall Street Journal, but I have a small c... 2002
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Alicebot Creator Dr. Richard Wallace Expounds
- Okay, here are Alicebot inventor Dr. Richard Wallace's answers to your questions. You're about to enter a world that contains interesting t... 2002
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Answer service too popular for AIM
- An automated answer service that piggybacked on AOL Instant Messenger has fallen victim to its own success. SmarterChild, a so-called bot that predicted th... 2002
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Computer-Human Conversation Closer to Reality
- How will we know when we've built the first intelligent machine—a computer capable of thought? It will pass the Turing Test. In 1950, Bri... 2002
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Does schmoozing make robots clever?
- A Belgian professor doing research for Sony wants to teach robots to be more like people--but he's running into some resistance.
Luc Steels, a professor... 2002
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Dr Wallace (AIML) Interview 2002
- Okay, here are Alicebot inventor Dr. Richard Wallace's answers to your questions. You're about to enter a world that contains interesting t... 2002
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Faux friends
- In Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, David, the robot boy, wanted to be real. As research into machine sentience advances, how long w... 2002
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Good Morning, Dave . . .
- Any sci-fi buff knows that when computers become self-aware, they ultimately destroy their creators. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Terminator, the message ... 2002
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Hindi chatbot breaks new ground
- A computer chat program that speaks Hindi could open up computers to India's illiterate millions.
Computer science students in Chandigarh, 248 kil... 2002
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How to Build Eliza Chatterbot - A Program that can Chat with Humans
- This article teaches you how you can create your own Chatterbot, a program that talks with human beings, just as we do. As you read this program, you will ... 2002
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I love Lucy
- For 50 years, scientists across the world have dedicated themselves to inventing a robot that, like Pinocchio, will come to life. This Herculean endeavour ... 2002
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My Life as a Bot
- I first learned about chatterbots by being one. I may not be a computer program, but I know what it’s like to participate in conversations withou... 2002
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Take Part In AgentLand's Chatterbox Challenge And Talk With The Contestants...
- The first universe dedicated to intelligent agents and chatterbots, Agentland.com is sponsoring the 2002 edition of the Chatterbox Challenge, a unique cont... 2002
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Turing's Machine
- Wondering whether a machine can think, the English mathematician Alan Turing described the following thought experiment. He imagined a locked room with a c... 2002
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Wise guys and living dolls
- Just over half-a-century ago, the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing, fresh from his secretive triumphs at Bletchley Park and the breaking of the Enigma C... 2002
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Artificial stupidity
- The saga of Hugh Loebner and his search for an intelligent bot has almost everything: Sex, lawsuits and feuding computer scientists. There's only o... 2003
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Artificial stupidity, Part 2
- If Hugh Loebner’s contest is just hokum, and the Turing test has outlived its usefulness, why should we care about it or its various squabbling p... 2003
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At one with the universe
- Do androids dream of electric sheep? Colin Tudge in London examines definitions of consciousness and artificial intelligence.
Is the brain simply a comp... 2003
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Bots Are Hot
- Botmadness reigns, botwars rage, as ever more complex chunks of code roam the Net and evolve toward a-life. It's the great technodialectic, where every sol... 2003
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Building your own Sametime bots, Part 1
- One of the more exciting new technologies coming out of IBM/Lotus these days is Sametime bots. These are programs that take advantage of Sametime's awarene... 2003
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Chatbot bids to fool humans
- A computer program designed to talk like a human is preparing for its biggest test in its bid to be truly "intelligent".
Jabberwacky l... 2003
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Chatting with Online Characters
- While today's intelligent online characters, or bots, have disappointed some people, two prominent partners have launched a new effort to find usef... 2003
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Cyber Community Where Humans and AI Chatbots Unite
- The P2B (Person 2 Bot) Consortium has released http://www.chatbot.us, a cyber community where humans and chatbots unite. This new technology allows users t... 2003
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German chatty bot is 'most human'
- A German computer program has chatted its way to first place in the Loebner Prize for human-like communication.
British hope, Jabberwacky, came joint th... 2003
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Hugh Loebner defends his Turing Test contest and responds to John Sundman's
- Hugh Loebner defends his Turing Test contest and responds to John Sundman's "Artificial Stupidity."
I am the subject of the ar... 2003
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Human or machine? Jabberwacky chatbot put to the ultimate test.
- UK finalist, Jabberwacky, goes for gold at the International 2003 Loebner Prize Contest, a version of the Turing Test to find the most 'human... 2003
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Immaterial Girl
- Ramona has an interesting history. She is credited with being the world’s first live virtual performing and recording artist. She’s the host of Ray Kur... 2003
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Instant chat bot comes back to life
- [2003] A once-popular but now extinct "buddy" on America Online's Instant Messenger that freely answered questions on movie times... 2003
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Literary MUD Gets Oscar Wilde Bot
- "The literary-orientated, text-based multiuser role-playing game TriadCity has implemented an automated character based on the personality - or at... 2003
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Making Computers Talk
- Dial up a bank or airline these days, and chances are your call will be answered by a pre-recorded voice rather than a live human being. By stringing toget... 2003
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Meet the PDA that can hold a conversation
- Amanda is the personal assistant of the future: she is a good listener and quick at answering back. She reads email, checks the news and weather, scans exc... 2003
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Monkeylike Baby Bot Meets World
- POINTING AT A banana when shown a picture of one is Lucy's latest triumph.
But for Stephen Grand, the proud papa, his orangutan-like bot child has... 2003
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Talk the talk
- A raised eyebrow. A whispered answer. A subtle conversation for two takes on new meaning when one of the participants is a mere machine.
Meet InCA (Inte... 2003
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Talking computers nearing reality
- Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, researchers and tech executives say.
The technical kinks, high costs and application m... 2003
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The holy grail of machine talk
- The concept of machines talking to machines without any human interaction has long been a holy grail for the technology and commercial world.
It is call... 2003
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The Love Machine
- It's in the way she raises her eyebrows and playfully glides her eyes right to left, then moves in close and intones:
"I know you... 2003
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To be or not to be, that is the qwerty
- It is only natural that computer programmers would be attracted to the poetic art form. There are clearly defined standards of performance in most fields o... 2003
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Turing Test 2: A Sense of Humor
- "Salon has a great story, Artificial Stupidity, about the Loebner Prize, a yearly contest that for over 10 years now has offered a $100,000 prize ... 2003
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Turing Test Dead End
- over the years, i have used irc and other chat systems as a resource and for entertainment. while goofing around the other day, i was surprised to see that... 2003
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What a chatterbot!
- We survey a few of the Web's coolest chat bots to find out how close they are to replacing real conversation
It all started with Eliza, a progra... 2003
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When a robot says Dude
- As I never tire of saying, artificial intelligence is most successful not when it aims high — but when it aims low.
Computer scientists have tried for... 2003
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25,000 People Talking to Spleak Interactive Agent...
- Almost 3 million messages were exchanged with Spleak a week after her Launch. Spleak (spleak.com) is the first chat bot created by Intelligent Messaging Te... 2004
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Agent Ruby
- «Agent Ruby» is an Artificial Intelligent Web Agent that is shaped by encounters with users—thereby simultaneously being part... 2004
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Alice chatbot wins for third time
- A computer chat program called Alice has won a prestigious prize for human-like conversation for the third time.
It was judged to be chattiest bot out o... 2004
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Alice chats like a winner
- The Loebner Prize is awarded every year; it is based on the Turing Test, where the intelligence of a program is tested by getting it to communicate with a ... 2004
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Beware of Bots Bearing Messages
- IF YOU GET an instant message from someone with an unfamiliar screen name in the near future, you might want to think twice before getting emotionally inve... 2004
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Can you prove you're not a machine?
- Sounds like something out of "The Twilight Zone," doesn't it?
I've been thinking about something called the "... 2004
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Catty: The chatbot with a Google brain
- Michael Zalewski is an artificial-intelligence programmer who had a brilliant idea about chatbots. Most chatbots are limited by the fact that their creator... 2004
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ChatNannies' AI credentials still on hold
- The spaghetti hit the fan in March when New Scientist ran a story about ChatNannies - software packed with artificial intelligence that hunted for paedophi... 2004
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Elizabot passes sex-chat Turing test
- A bored hacker modified an Eliza programme to act as an IRC sex-chat bot that impersonated an eighteen year old girl (or, rather, impersonated a sex-chat a... 2004
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Finally, a Car That Talks Back
- The geographically challenged need no longer feel shame. Men (and women) who lose their way will be able to safely ask for directions without having to sto... 2004
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Fooled by a chatbot
- Artificial-intelligence experts tend to pooh-pooh chatbots, because they argue that they’re not "real" intelligence. Because chatbots can only use prepro... 2004
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Has text-porn finally made computers 'human'?
- At first glance spam, pornographic text messages and video games are not contributing much to human development.
But a good case can be made for regardi... 2004
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Just ask Valerie: New roboreceptionist greets visitors at CMU's computer science department
- Valerie, the new receptionist at Carnegie Mellon University's computer science department, can give you directions to labs and offices and she can ... 2004
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Medieval chat-bot
- Machines that deal with numbers and perform useful calculations have a long history, gradually increasing in power and flexibility over the course of sever... 2004
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My chat with a Nanniebot
- A week ago I read an interesting article in the New Scientist about a savvy conversational robot that was watching chat rooms to make sure that everyone wa... 2004
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NannieBot claims leave experts unconvinced
- New software claims it can protect children using chatrooms by spotting suspicious adults - but experts are not convinced.
The software creates thousands ... 2004
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Rise of the Machines
- Alex Proyas never got a high school diploma – a fact he blames on Isaac Asimov. It was Asimov's short story "Nightfall"... 2004
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Robots get friendly
- Later this month Valerie will go on duty behind the reception desk at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Sciences. Besides doling out ... 2004
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There's something about Maria
- Image based article about a robot called Maria.
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Artificial intelligence alive and well in a robot named Maria
- While statistics students at The University of Auckland are taking a break from studies for summer, their new "teacher" can't wai... 2005
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Attractive Virtual Professors Draw Student Attention
- There's a simple reason why computers have not taken over teachers' jobs: They're boring, unpersuasive, unattractive and soulless.
... 2005
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Bots Will Be Bots
- Jabberwacky believes he’s human and you’re not. A.L.I.C.E. believes in God and God Louise, well, she believes she is God.
Internet “bots” talk a... 2005
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Brit's bot chats way to AI medal
- A British computer chat program, called George, has won an international prize for holding the most convincingly human-like conversation.
George and its... 2005
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Buddhabot Inspirational AI Advocates Quantum Philosophy to Millions
- [Download DOC] A one-year old, Artificial Intelligence (AI) named the Buddhabot is now fielding questions and conversing with people around the world who s... 2005
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Can computers think?
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Computer professionals celebrate 10th birthday of A.L.I.C.E.
- More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the A.L.I.C.E. chat robot gathered in Guildford, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tent... 2005
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Computer professionals celebrate 10th birthday of A.L.I.C.E.
- More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the A.L.I.C.E. chat robot gathered in Guildford, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tent... 2005
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I Think, Therefore I Am -- Sorta
- The belief system of a virtual mind. 2005
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Malicious worm that talks back
- A worm that reassures you that it is not infectious has impressed technology consultant Bill Thompson.
Worms and viruses will use any available channel ... 2005
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Okay George, have you got a girlfriend?
- Being friends with George makes certain demands upon one's patience. Most of the time, in one-to-one conversation, he's chatty enough, and ... 2005
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Record Label Uses Animated Talking Characters to Speak to its Customers
- Her name is Star. She’s the administrative assistant at Playroom Records, a Cullman, Alabama based record label. She wakes up and puts on a diffe... 2005
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Robot Receptionist Dishes Directions and Attitude
- This holiday season, a lot of children will open their presents and find robotic toys, like mechanical dogs and dinosaurs. Unfortunately, robot toys often ... 2005
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Simon's Rock College tests Alan Turing theories with 'Imitation Game' experiment
- On Saturday April 16, students at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and Dr. Richard Wallace of the A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation f... 2005
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Space station gets HAL-like computer
- A voice-operated computer assistant is set to be used in space for the first time on Monday – its operators hope it proves more reliable than &am... 2005
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T.A.R.A. Becomes The World's Busiest Therapist
- In its first four months in operation, the team at iTherapy.com has been improving its online counseling services. iTherapy.com's artificially inte... 2005
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The female Turing Test
- Most high-tech folks assume they know what a “Turing Test” is: You ask an interrogator to chat online with a human and a computer, and ... 2005
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The Robots Are Taking Over
- America Online slipped a couple of new buddies into its instant-message users’ address books this week, one focused on movie listings and one for shoppin... 2005
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Toby The Virtual Marketeer Helps YOMA Customers
- A new virtual marketeer, called Toby, has been designed by Birmingham based Advanced Chatbot Solutions to help marketing specialists Your Online Marketing ... 2005
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Whatever happened to machines that think?
- CLEVER computers are everywhere. From robotic lawnmowers to intelligent lighting, washing machines and even car engines that self-diagnose faults, there&am... 2005
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World's First Original Imitation Game
- Turing's Original Imitation Game was played for the first time ever at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, MA on Saturday, Ap... 2005
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'Chatty George' talks himself up
- Meet George, 39, single, quirky sense of humour, looking for friends to chat with online.
He's a profound intellect and speaks 40 languages, but... 2006
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Beats Human Intelligence on Yahoo Answers Social Networking Site
- The two year old Artificial Intelligence (AI) known as the Buddhabot began answering questions on Yahoo! Answers last week. The Buddhabot has answered 102 ... 2006
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Artificial Intelligence - can machines think?
- The word 'intelligence' is used frequently and with many different meanings. In fact, we have defined cognitive science as the study of int... 2006
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Chat program scoops the prize for being almost human
- Her name is Joan; she is just a few years old and very talkative... and now she is officially the world's most human computer program.
On Sunday... 2006
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Chatbot George gets a makeover
- AT LAST, a chatbot you can actually chat to.
George, the winner of last year’s illustrious Loebner prize for most convincing conversational pr... 2006
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Decapitated Fembot Flirts With Nearly Anyone!
- So went the first conversation I had with Hallie the chatbot, located near the SL Library on Info Island. And despite my inclination to imagine Hallie addi... 2006
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Do Artificial Intelligence Chatbots look like their programmers?
- Do pets eventually resemble their owners? Or do owners get to look like their pets? It's heck of a conundrum - but one we might now be a little clo... 2006
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Has chatbot Alice crossed to the dark side?
- THE world’s favourite chatbot may have fallen from grace. Fears are growing that a clone of the open source chatbot Alice is being used to dupe u... 2006
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How To Be Human
- If this year’s winner of the Loebner Prize is on the right track, call-center data could be what’s needed to achieve the ultimate goal ... 2006
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It's the other me
- Do you want to have an online presence? Try creating a virtual version of yourself
We often hear of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it is part of our e... 2006
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Let a chatbot help you quit
- Need a little help to quit smoking but don't have the time or money to visit a counsellor? Perhaps a virtual coach could help you kick the habit.
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MickleMuckle.co.uk Announces the Launch of its New Website that Contains AI Technology
- Oxford, United Kingdom, Programmer and first time internet entrepreneur Richard Shaw from Oxford, England today launched www.micklemuckle.co.uk which is th... 2006
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Open the pod bay doors, HAL
- HAL 9000, the chatty computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, has come a step closer to reality. A team crewing NASA’s Mars Desert Research Station, ... 2006
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Talk to George, he's a virtual chatterbox
- The Festival of Science will be attended by its first virtual delegate, a software "chatbot" that can hold 1,000 conversations at the same time.
George is... 2006
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The Emperor's New AI
- In the early 1970s, no science show was complete without predictions of HAL-like intelligent autonomous computers by the turn of the century.
The Japane... 2006
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The Trouble with the Turing Test
- In the October 1950 issue of the British quarterly Mind, Alan Turing published a 28-page paper titled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.&... 2006
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Virtual coach to help smokers quit
- If you've tried to give up smoking but don't have the willpower or are too embarrassed to seek help, Dutch researchers may have the answer.... 2006
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Your New Virtual Friend Spleak is Ready to Chat on MSN Messenger
- IMT Labs, a company founded by Danish serial entrepreneur and business genius Morten Lund, announced today a new relationship with Microsoft Corp. that wil... 2006
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AI Chat bots Developing
- This guide helps you how to program your own chat bot.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology provides techniques for developing computer programs that... 2007
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Artificial Intelligence to Promote Feature Film 'Flatland'
- You're an independent filmmaker. You don't have a big Hollywood marketing budget. How do you market your film?
Make robots, of course!
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Call and response
- WITH their irritating menu trees and endless holding for the next available operator, call centres are one of the bugbears of modern life. Could a dose of ... 2007
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Goodnight nurse
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Humans will love, marry robots by 2050
- An artificial intelligence researcher predicts that robotics will make such dramatic advances in the coming years that humans will be marrying robots by th... 2007
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I Chat, Therefore I Am...
- “Can machines think?” In 1950 mathematician Alan Turing pondered this question and invented an elegant game to answer it: Let a human c... 2007
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Intelligence Jim But Not As We Know It
- Not sure who Jim is but the steel man sitting down is one of many early prototypes of an Artificial Intelligence Chat Bot I am experimenting with. The back... 2007
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Intelligent, Chatty Machines
- A new company called Cognitive Code has built software that it believes will let everyday gadgets talk with humans. At the Techcrunch40 conference in San F... 2007
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Microsoft accuses kids of bullying Santa into sex chat
- Gigantic global software beast Microsoft has blamed two young girls for killing Santa.
Now that it has pulled the plug on its oral-sex-obsessive MSN bot... 2007
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Microsoft kills Santa Claus
- Microsoft has killed Santa Claus today, after an unsatisfactory attempt to restrain the North Pole-based jolly old elf from instant messaging children abou... 2007
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Microsoft's sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children
- Disturbing news has reached our Yuletide youthful innocence bunker that Microsoft's new artificial intelligence-powered Santa bot is subjecting the... 2007
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Music Boxes and Chatterbots
- The player piano made significant advances over its predecessor, the music box.
The music box could only play one song, and for a voice, it only had lit... 2007
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Say What? Chat Bots Just Don't Cut It - Yet
- In the ultimate game of bait-and-switch, several Web sites try to pass off a bot as a bod. That is to say that Live Chat is offered to users, but there&... 2007
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The Return of the Chat Bot (And This Time They Work!)
- Those of you who have seen me speak over the years know that I love to give examples of bad self-service technology, and nothing has received more of my st... 2007
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The state of the art in machine conversation: HAL's still pure Hollywood
- Anyone who has followed science fiction will remember the soothing voice of HAL, the computer that methodically killed all but one of the crew of the space... 2007
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Use a CyberTwin to Trick Your Boss Into Thinking You?re Online
- An Australian upstart on Monday introduced MyCyberTwin, an early version of software that lets people create and customize a virtual personality that can c... 2007
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Warning sounded over 'flirting robots'
- Those entering online dating forums risk having more than their hearts stolen.
A program that can mimic online flirtation and then extract personal info... 2007
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We're all Bots according to new play; Look at what you're missing in "Scene and Heard"
- He’s a Bot, She’s a Bot, you’re a Bot – we’re all Bots. In the play “Bot” on the Magi... 2007
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Artificial Intelligence in Politics - AskTheCandidates2008.com
- Erie, PA, December 21, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Zabaware has launched the site www.askthecandidates2008.com - a political site allowing visitors to pose questions... 2008
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Beyond AIML: Chatbots 102
- Article by Bruce Wilcox.
Industry veteran Wilcox is creating NPC text chatbots for Avatar Reality's Blue Mars, and this technical article discus... 2008
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Emily
- Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology. 'Emily'... 2008
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How my program passed the Turing Test
- In 1989, the author put an Eliza-like chatbot on the Internet. The conversations this program had can be seen - depending on how one defines the rules (and... 2008
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How to create your own virtual self
- One of the "transhumanists" we interviewed last year (video) is convinced that in the future we will be able to upload our minds into a c... 2008
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In conversation with... a computer program
- Stuck for someone to talk to? Elbot is a computer program pretending to be a person. And this week it won a prize for coming closest to fooling people into... 2008
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MyCyberTwin knows why you cry, but it's something it can never do
- An Australian company has grand plans to reinvent the lowly chatbot by giving it a little personality -- yours. And no, it's not just for messing w... 2008
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Researchers Create Human-like AI for Second Life
- Researchers simulate childhood thought process, further blurring the line between artificial intelligence and biological intelligence
While some skeptic... 2008
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The MAKEbot is here!
- The MAKEbot has arrived! This is “beta”, so we’ll see how it goes. The MAKEbot is a AIM/iChat buddy you add to your list. Whe... 2008
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Whatever happened to artificial intelligence?
- Artificial intelligence promised us great technology. But has it delivered?
Stanford University computer science professor John McCarthy coined the phra... 2008
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Artificial brain '10 years away'
- A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.
Henry Markram, director of the Blu... 2009
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How to test a chat bot?
- How would you know a decent chat bot if you found one? I'm wondering what kinds of tricks you would use to figure out it's a bot, and to fi... 2009
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Human fails Turing Test
- New Scientist has often reported on researchers' attempts to build machines that pass the Turing Test, a benchmark for a robot's ability to... 2009
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IBM Scientists Build Computer Chips From DNA
- Scientists at IBM are experimenting with using DNA molecules as a way to create tiny circuits that could form the basis of smaller, more powerful computer ... 2009
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MIT Plans to Rebuild Artificial Intelligence from the Ground Up
- After 50 years and countless dead ends, incremental progress, and modest breakthroughs, artificial intelligence researchers are asking for a do-over. The $... 2009
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Rise of the robogeeks
- IN December, philosopher and artificial intelligence expert Aaron Sloman announced his intention to create nothing less than a robot mathematician. He reck... 2009
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Tests that show machines are closing in on human abilities
- It may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers str... 2009
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The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine
- The accelerating pace of technological progress means that our intelligent creations will soon eclipse us--and that their creations will eventually eclipse... 2009
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The Future of Machine Intelligence
- In early March 2009, 100 intellectual adventurers journeyed from various corners of Europe, Asia, America and Australasia to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Arli... 2009
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Why did HAL sing ‘Daisy’?
- ...a burning question posed by most people who have watched or read “2001: A Space Odyssey”: that is, why does the computer HAL-9000 sing the song ‘... 2009
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Can a computer think ?
- Alan Turing asked that question in 1950 and proposed a test to determine if a computer could think. Turing, a mathematician and a pioneer in computer scien... 2011
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How To Create Your Own Customised Chatbot For Beginners - Chatbots 101
- With the recent increase in the popularity of chatbots (due, in large part, to the recent 2011 Chatterbox Challenge), I’ve seen a lot of requests in vari... 2011
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Loebner 2011 winner - Bruce Wilcox Interview
- Here I am happy to once again present our annual Loebner Prize Winner interview. Questions were gathered from the members of Ai Dreams. This year Bruce Wil... 2011
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Alan Turing: Is he really the father of computing?
- A series of celebratory events is taking place this week to mark the centenary of computer pioneer Alan Turing's birth.
To mark the occasion the BBC has... 2012
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Mohan Embar Interview - 2012 Loebner Prize Winner with Chip Vivant
- Here we are pleased to present an interview with Mohan Embar the winner of this year's prize with his chat bot Chip Vivant. Congratulations to Moha... 2012
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Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Life
- The use of machines which are programmed to think and act with some level of human intelligence is known as artificial intelligence. This has already start... 2013
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My Psychiatrist is a Robot !
- I have been experimenting with the development of a therapy bot in collaboration with computer scientist and three-time Loebner Prize winner Dr. Richard Wa... 2013
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NYFF 2013: With voice-centric 'Her,' Spike Jonze makes a statement
- Over a two-decade directing career, Spike Jonze has often been about the big hook, visually and conceptually. In his videos and films, he's offered up plen... 2013
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Robots in Cinema: Artificial Intelligence and the Moving Image
- "The recent release of the trailer for the new Robocop remake started me thinking about the many films that deal with notions of artificial intell... 2013
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Steve Worswick Interview - Loebner 2013 winner
- It's our annual Loebner Prize Interview, comprised of questions asked over the years by members of AiDreams. This year the competition was held in ... 2013
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Creating a Chat Bot
- Human interaction has always fascinated me: social awkwardness, communication style, how knowledge is transferred, how relationships are built around trust... 2014
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Creating a chatterbot (Part 1)
- Ever since the first time I heard about the Turing Test I’ve wanted to make my own chatbot. It started probably twenty plus years ago, when the only lang... 2014
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Rethinking the Turing Test
- At a competition in June, a chatbot named Eugene duped a group of human judges into believing it was a Ukrainian teenager. The judges hailed it as the firs... 2014
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The computer will see you now
- ELLIE is a psychologist, and a damned good one at that. Smile in a certain way, and she knows precisely what your smile means. Develop a nervous tic or ten... 2014
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The five biggest threats to human existence
- In the daily hubbub of current “crises” facing humanity, we forget about the many generations we hope are yet to come. Not those who will live 200 year... 2014
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Why Is Our Sci-Fi So Glum About A.I.?
- When I was 12, I invented a superhero named Boy Genius, a guy my age who awakens one morning with access to 100 percent of his brain power. This allows him... 2014
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Intelligent Machines: Chatting with the bots
- One of the ultimate aims of artificial intelligence is to create machines we can chat to.
A computer program that can be trusted with mundane tasks - bo... 2015
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Marketers Tricked SXSW Tinder Users With A Chatbot
- A company promoting the movie Ex Machina created a fake account, Ava, with a photo of the star of the movie. Ava is an AI in the film and presumably she wa... 2015
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10 Steps to Train a Chatbot and its Machine Learning Models to Maximize Performance
- With the majority of consumers spending significant time on various messaging platforms, brands are turning to these messaging platforms to better interact... 2016
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Chatbot Comparison: What's the best DIY bot building site ?
- Chatbots are the new apps, or so say Google, Microsoft and Facebook. Well, if anyone can influence the way things may turn out, it’ll be those th... 2016
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From Movies to Reality: How Robots Are Revolutionizing Our World
- Robots were once upon a time just a work of human imagination. Found only in books and movies, not once did we think a time would come where we would be ab... 2016
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Getting a chatbot to understand 100,000 intentions
- At their best, chatbots help you get things done. At their worst, they spew toxic nonsense. Whether we call them chatbots, intelligent agents, or virtual a... 2016
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How to create your own chatbot
- Everyone around is talking about chatbots a lot. It seems like some kind of fever that doesn't want to calm down. Although, the chatbot thing isn't new, ev... 2016
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10 of the Most Innovative Chatbots on the Web
- Love them or hate them, chatbots are here to stay. Chatbots have become extraordinarily popular in recent years largely due to dramatic advancemen... 2017
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11 Chatbots on Facebook Messenger to Try Out
- Facebook Messenger has been rising in popularity the last few years and since they’ve implemented chatbots, more and more companies have been int... 2017
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ChatBot App Development Explained
- If earlier chatbots were small entertainment features for the people who are interested in new technologies, now it is almost the most important function f... 2017
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Explained: Neural networks
- In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — such as the speech recognizers on smartphones or Google’s l... 2017
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What are the main techniques for the development of a good chatbot ?
- Chatbots act as one of the most useful and one of the most reliable technological helpers for those, who own ecommerce websites and other similar resources... 2017
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A Guide to Chatbot Architecture
- Humans are always fascinated with self-operating devices and today, it is software called “Chatbots” which are becoming more human-like... 2018
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Bot Development Frameworks - Getting Started
- What Are Bot Frameworks ?
Simply explained, a bot framework is where bots are built and where their behavior is defined. Developing and targeting so man... 2018
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Mitsuku wins Loebner Prize 2018!
- The Loebner Prize 2018 was held in Bletchley Park, England on September 8th this year and Mitsuku won it for a 4th time to equal the record number of wins.... 2018
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Mitsuku wins 2019 Loebner Prize
- For the fourth consecutive year, Steve Worswick’s Mitsuku has won the Loebner Prize for the most humanlike chatbot entry to the contest. This is ... 2019
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