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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 is ...
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 is ...
2006
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 advancements i...
Love them or hate them, chatbots are here to stay. Chatbots have become extraordinarily popular in recent years largely due to dramatic advancements i...
2017
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...
With the majority of consumers spending significant time on various messaging platforms, brands are turning to these messaging platforms to better interact...
2016
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 introdu...
Facebook Messenger has been rising in popularity the last few years and since they’ve implemented chatbots, more and more companies have been introdu...
2017
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...
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
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 Intelligen...
Computers are taking over the world, and recently they’ve started talking back. The following is an interview with Penny, an Artificial Intelligen...
2002
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 future come easy....
Seventeen of the world's most wired minds stake their names – and their cash – on the future. Pronouncements about the future come easy....
2002
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....
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
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 and are...
Humans are always fascinated with self-operating devices and today, it is software called “Chatbots” which are becoming more human-like and are...
2018
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...
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
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...
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
Agent Ruby
«Agent Ruby» is an Artificial Intelligent Web Agent that is shaped by encounters with users—thereby simultaneously being part of the real...
«Agent Ruby» is an Artificial Intelligent Web Agent that is shaped by encounters with users—thereby simultaneously being part of the real...
2004
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...
This guide helps you how to program your own chat bot. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology provides techniques for developing computer programs that...
2007
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...
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
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 inspired ...
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 inspired ...
1997
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...
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
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 questi...
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 questi...
1999
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 supposedly exponentia...
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 supposedly exponentia...
2001
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...
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
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 ...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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 thoughts ...
Okay, here are Alicebot inventor Dr. Richard Wallace's answers to your questions. You're about to enter a world that contains interesting thoughts ...
2002
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...
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
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...
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
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 ...
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
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 intelligent...
The word 'intelligence' is used frequently and with many different meanings. In fact, we have defined cognitive science as the study of intelligent...
2006
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 wait for the new semester t...
While statistics students at The University of Auckland are taking a break from studies for summer, their new teacher can't wait for the new semester t...
2005
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...
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
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...
Erie, PA, December 21, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Zabaware has launched the site www.askthecandidates2008.com - a political site allowing visitors to pose questions...
2008
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! Or, to...
You're an independent filmmaker. You don't have a big Hollywood marketing budget. How do you market your film? Make robots, of course! Or, to...
2007
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 one t...
The saga of Hugh Loebner and his search for an intelligent bot has almost everything: Sex, lawsuits and feuding computer scientists. There's only one t...
2003
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 parti...
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 parti...
2003
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...
Do androids dream of electric sheep? Colin Tudge in London examines definitions of consciousness and artificial intelligence. Is the brain simply a comp...
2003
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. That may ...
There's a simple reason why computers have not taken over teachers' jobs: They're boring, unpersuasive, unattractive and soulless. That may ...
2005
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...
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
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...
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
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 discusses ...
Article by Bruce Wilcox. Industry veteran Wilcox is creating NPC text chatbots for Avatar Reality's Blue Mars, and this technical article discusses ...
2008
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 called BizzaroKiehl, or Biz ...
AOLIZA ISN'T THE only chatbot lurking on America Online's instant messaging service. Another conversation simulator called BizzaroKiehl, or Biz ...
2000
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
A British computer chat program, called George, has won an international prize for holding the most convincingly human-like conversation. George and its...
2005
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...
[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
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...
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
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 ...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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 Turing Test lately because some of my ...
Sounds like something out of The Twilight Zone, doesn't it? I've been thinking about something called the Turing Test lately because some of my ...
2004
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...
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
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, th...
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, th...
2006
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...
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
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 lives on a computer h...
A computer program designed to talk like a human is preparing for its biggest test in its bid to be truly intelligent. Jabberwacky lives on a computer h...
2003
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 three....
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 three....
2016
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 progra...
AT LAST, a chatbot you can actually chat to. George, the winner of last year’s illustrious Loebner prize for most convincing conversational progra...
2006
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...
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
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-service a...
Web modules have become standard in call center software: your customers expect to see full-fledged Web integration in knowledge management, self-service a...
1999
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 useful e...
While today's intelligent online characters, or bots, have disappointed some people, two prominent partners have launched a new effort to find useful e...
2003
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...
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
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 hopes to be able to...
Web users are being invited to help create the first model of human thought. By collecting atoms of information a Canadian scientist hopes to be able to...
2000
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...
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
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...
An Israeli company has created a conversational computer program it claims could revolutionise the way people interact with machines. Artificial Intelli...
2001
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...
Using "learning algorithms" and children's stories, scientists at Artificial Intelligence Enterprise (Ai) in Tel Aviv, Israel claim to have created a compu...
2001
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...
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
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...
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
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, British mat...
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, British mat...
2002
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 who ...
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 who ...
1999
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...
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
Creating a Chat Bot
Human interaction has always fascinated me: social awkwardness, communication style, how knowledge is transferred, how relationships are built around trust...
Human interaction has always fascinated me: social awkwardness, communication style, how knowledge is transferred, how relationships are built around trust...
2014
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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 closer ...
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 closer ...
2006
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...
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
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...
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
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 thoughts ...
Okay, here are Alicebot inventor Dr. Richard Wallace's answers to your questions. You're about to enter a world that contains interesting thoughts ...
2002
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...
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
Emily
Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology. 'Emily' will s...
Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology. 'Emily' will s...
2008
Explained: Neural networks
In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — such as the speech recognizers on smartphones or Google’s latest au...
In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — such as the speech recognizers on smartphones or Google’s latest au...
2017
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 will ...
In Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, David, the robot boy, wanted to be real. As research into machine sentience advances, how long will ...
2002
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...
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
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...
Artificial-intelligence experts tend to pooh-pooh chatbots, because they argue that they’re not "real" intelligence. Because chatbots can only use prepro...
2004
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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’s ...
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’s ...
2000
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 ...
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
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 users...
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 users...
2006
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...
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
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 make most people believ...
IN THE MID 1960s, an artificial intelligence professor at MIT created a computer program whose personality was just human enough to make most people believ...
2000
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 kilomet...
A computer chat program that speaks Hindi could open up computers to India's illiterate millions. Computer science students in Chandigarh, 248 kilomet...
2002
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 ...
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
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...
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
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 of artif...
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 of artif...
2006
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 ...
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
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...
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
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 ...
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 ...
2011
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 computer. But why wai...
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 computer. But why wai...
2008
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 figure out...
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 figure out...
2009
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 article “Artificial ...
Hugh Loebner defends his Turing Test contest and responds to John Sundman's Artificial Stupidity. I am the subject of the article “Artificial ...
2003
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 think. ...
New Scientist has often reported on researchers' attempts to build machines that pass the Turing Test, a benchmark for a robot's ability to think. ...
2009
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' arti...
UK finalist, Jabberwacky, goes for gold at the International 2003 Loebner Prize Contest, a version of the Turing Test to find the most 'human' arti...
2003
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...
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
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 chat via ...
“Can machines think?” In 1950 mathematician Alan Turing pondered this question and invented an elegant game to answer it: Let a human chat via ...
2007
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 ...
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
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 ...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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, weather and stocks is ...
[2003] A once-popular but now extinct buddy on America Online's Instant Messenger that freely answered questions on movie times, weather and stocks is ...
2003
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...
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
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 ...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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.
What do you get when you mix AOL, AppleScript, and artificial intelligence (AI)? Psychoanalysis, Internet style.
2000
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...
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
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 independ...
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 independ...
2001
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 give...
Valerie, the new receptionist at Carnegie Mellon University's computer science department, can give you directions to labs and offices and she can give...
2004
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...
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
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 compe...
We report on the recent Loebner prize competition inspired by Turing's test of intelligent behavior. The presentation covers the structure of the compe...
1993
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.
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.
2006
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 least the...
The literary-orientated, text-based multiuser role-playing game TriadCity has implemented an automated character based on the personality - or at least the...
2003
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...
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
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 ...
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
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...
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
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 ...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
Oxford, United Kingdom, Programmer and first time internet entrepreneur Richard Shaw from Oxford, England today launched www.micklemuckle.co.uk which is th...
2006
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...
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
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...
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
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 wor...
Disturbing news has reached our Yuletide youthful innocence bunker that Microsoft's new artificial intelligence-powered Santa bot is subjecting the wor...
2007
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 $...
After 50 years and countless dead ends, incremental progress, and modest breakthroughs, artificial intelligence researchers are asking for a do-over. The $...
2009
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 the ...
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 the ...
2019
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....
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
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 Mohan on...
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 Mohan on...
2012
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 dem...
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 dem...
2003
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...
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
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...
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
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 without un...
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 without un...
2002
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...
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
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 with ...
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 with ...
2008
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 ...
New software claims it can protect children using chatrooms by spotting suspicious adults - but experts are not convinced. The software creates thousands ...
2004
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...
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
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...
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
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 sometime...
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 sometime...
2005
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, a si...
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, a si...
2006
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 info...
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 info...
2001
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 are you t...
No. It's supposed to be clever. It's there because the article is about namespaces, HTML, XHTML, AIML, various other acronyms LOL. Who are you t...
2001
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 is first discovered: Pay...
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 is first discovered: Pay...
2001
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...
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
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 different...
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 different...
2005
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...
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
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 that derailed Proyas' a...
Alex Proyas never got a high school diploma – a fact he blames on Isaac Asimov. It was Asimov's short story Nightfall that derailed Proyas' a...
2004
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...
IN December, philosopher and artificial intelligence expert Aaron Sloman announced his intention to create nothing less than a robot mathematician. He reck...
2009
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 ...
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
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 info...
Later this month Valerie will go on duty behind the reception desk at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Sciences. Besides doling out info...
2004
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 intelligence and...
The recent release of the trailer for the new Robocop remake started me thinking about the many films that deal with notions of artificial intelligence and...
2013
Ruminations on the Territory of Language
More than just an elegant graph of the ALICE brain, these spiral images (see more) outline a territory of language that has been effective...
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
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'...
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
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 for t...
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 for t...
2005
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 “...
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 “...
2005
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 Derr...
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 Derr...
2013
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 intellig...
In its first four months in operation, the team at iTherapy.com has been improving its online counseling services. iTherapy.com's artificially intellig...
2005
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...
The first universe dedicated to intelligent agents and chatterbots, Agentland.com is sponsoring the 2002 edition of the Chatterbox Challenge, a unique cont...
2002
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
The accelerating pace of technological progress means that our intelligent creations will soon eclipse us--and that their creations will eventually eclipse...
2009
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...
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
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...
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
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 to try a...
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 to try a...
2005
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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'll be super. ...
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'll be super. ...
2003
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...
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
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...
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
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. When you type l...
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. When you type l...
2008
The Politician
Client: Do you think President Clinton should be impeached? Robot: It depends on what you mean by thinking. One inspiration for ALICE was the behavior ...
Client: Do you think President Clinton should be impeached? Robot: It depends on what you mean by thinking. One inspiration for ALICE was the behavior ...
2001
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 spacecraft toward Jupiter, maintain...
When we first meet HAL in 2001, it seems as if there's nothing this computer can't do. HAL steers the Discovery spacecraft toward Jupiter, maintain...
2000
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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.” I...
In the October 1950 issue of the British quarterly Mind, Alan Turing published a 28-page paper titled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” I...
2006
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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 ...
A new virtual marketeer, called Toby, has been designed by Birmingham based Advanced Chatbot Solutions to help marketing specialists Your Online Marketing ...
2005
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 to anyone ...
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 to anyone ...
2003
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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. Th...
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. Th...
2006
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...
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
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 Magic stage is Charliebot, who i...
He’s a Bot, She’s a Bot, you’re a Bot – we’re all Bots. In the play “Bot” on the Magic stage is Charliebot, who i...
2007
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 program de...
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 program de...
2003
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...
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
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,...
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
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, Zoe. Thus beg...
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, Zoe. Thus beg...
1997
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...
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
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...
Artificial intelligence promised us great technology. But has it delivered? Stanford University computer science professor John McCarthy coined the phra...
2008
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&rs...
CLEVER computers are everywhere. From robotic lawnmowers to intelligent lighting, washing machines and even car engines that self-diagnose faults, there&rs...
2005
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 years...
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 years...
2003
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 ‘...
...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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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, April 16, ...
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, April 16, ...
2005
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 com...
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 com...
2001
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...
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
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...
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
