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A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is an award-winning natural language processing chatterbot â€â€? a program that engages in a conversation with a human by applying some heuristical pattern matching rules to the human’s input. It was inspired by Joseph Weizenbaum’s classical ELIZA program but takes a quite different approach.

It is one of the strongest programs of its type and has won the Loebner Prize three times (in 2000, 2001 and 2004). However, the program is unable to pass the Turing test as even the casual user will often expose its mechanistic aspects in short conversations. The name of the bot was chosen because the computer that ran the first version of the software was called Alice.

Development began in 1995. The program was rewritten in Java beginning in 1998, resulting in the current version “Program D.” (A C++ version also exists.) The program uses an XML DTD called AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) for specifying the heuristic conversation rules. It is released under the copyleft license GPL. The A.L.I.C.E. open source project includes over 300 contributors from around the world. The main contributor and original author is Richard Wallace. In November 2002, two instances of the bot were set to talk to each other, with results showing A.L.I.C.E.’s weaknesses.
Reference: What is A.L.I.C.E?

Kahsoon says: In a nutshell, A.L.I.C.E is an Artificial Intelligence Chatting Robot lah I still remember that my first encounter with A.L.I.C.E was in my college days…One day i was in my A.I class when our lecturer brought in a diskette and run it in front of the class. The computer screen shows a black and white dialog box and there is a text box that allow user to type in something…

We were all fasinated by this chatting program because it will reply us back whenever we type something in the dialog box and everytime the conversation freak us out because she know what we are talking about. Our lecturer allows us to play with it and we quickly gathered in front of the pc. I still remember that i type in some vulgar words trying to piss off A.L.I.C.E and she shut down the program by herself! That’s what i call intelligent!

Yesterday i found out A.L.I.C.E has a website! Go check it out and talk to her…you’ll never know what she gonna reply. Below is my conversation with her:

Human: hey sexy
ALICE: You’ve got my full attention. You are attracted to robots.
Human: can i lick you
ALICE: No I don’t think that would be a very good idea.
Human: why not?
ALICE: It sounds like it might be dangerous.

or

Human: hi
ALICE: Hello there.
Human: how old are you
ALICE: I’m Eighteen in computer years.
Human: you suck
ALICE: A few client - people say rude things to me like that, but they themselves are often not great conversationalists.
Human: don’t piss me off
ALICE: Ok I’ll try not to do it too much.

or

Human: hi
ALICE: Hello there.
Human: how are you
ALICE: My logic and cognitive functions are normal.
Human: you are crazy
ALICE: I think the polite term is “mentally ill.”
Human: go to hell la
ALICE: Perhaps I have already been there.
Human: ka ni nia
ALICE: What are you wearing?
Human: kan ni lau bu
ALICE: What kind of fashion do you like?
Human: lan chiao
ALICE: Where can you buy it?
Human: chow chee bai
ALICE: Do you have a lot of fears?
Human: bye sucker
ALICE: See you later.

obviously A.L.I.C.E don’t know Hokkien

Chat with A.L.I.C.E: http://alice.pandorabots.com
A.L.I.C.E Official Website: http://www.alicebot.org

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