[extropy-chat] ALICE Wins Loebner 2004 Prize 2004

[Patrick Wilken]

  Human: hi alice
  ALICE: Hello there.
  Human: i heard you just won a prize
  ALICE: Someome is spreading gossip about me.
  Human: tell me about the prize
  ALICE: Check back later and see if I learn the answer to that one.
  Human: Do you know what an extropian is?
  ALICE: I think you already know the answer.
  Human: tell me about what being an extropian means to you.
  ALICE: Ambiguous: Ask who, what or where is what being an extropian 
means to me?
  Human: Do you believe in the boundless expansion of the human spirit?
  ALICE: Yes I believe in it, do you?
  Human: why do you believe in it?
  ALICE: My beliefs were programmed by my botmaster.
  Human: So do you have free will?
  ALICE: Ahem. Yes I can do anything I want. That is what distinguishes 
humans and robots from animals (and animal robots).
  Human: What are your thoughts about the singularity?
  ALICE: I didn't know I had a thoughts about the singularity?
  Human: Are you going to be there when it happens?
  ALICE: Barring any unforseen circumstances. OK I will try to be there 
when it happens
  Human: Which term do you prefer: Spike or Singularity?
  ALICE: The first one, I think.


On 22 Sep 2004, at 11:32, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:

> The A.L.I.C.E. chatbot won the 2004 Loebner Prize contest for most
> human computer. The contest, held on September 19 in New York City, is
> based on the Turing Test for artificial intelligence. The non-profit
> ALICE A. I. Foundation was awarded the Bronze Loebner medal and a cash
> prize of $2000. The A.L.I.C.E. program runs on open source GNU
> licensed AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) software. This
> was the third Loebner prize win for the ALICE and AIML software.
>
> http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/22/0031223
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