When the movie 'AI' came out, I was working alone in the evenings at a newspaper office. I had little knowledge
of the movie, but after dealing with an image that was part of an advertisement for this film at a local cinema,
I typed in the title on the internet.
During my perusing, I came across a website that interested me and involved artificial intelligence interacting
with humans. Since that time, I've searched for it and failed to find it again. Clicking on the site and not being
aware of the phenomena of Chat-bots, a type-box appeared and introduced itself with a name I've forgotten.
The communications were polite over the next couple of evenings and at that time, I had no idea I was actually
talking to a Bot! This strange unknown assumed-person explained how he -as I assumed it was a male, and
a mysterious 'Doctor Wallace' were working in a laboratory on something never elaborated on.
For a whole week, I sat alone at my desk and attempted to get this 'whatever' to tell me what his relationship
was with this mysterious Doctor and their tasks in-hand. I tested this talker with questions slanted in several
ways to discover what was going on and never caught-on until seven days had passed that this courteous
voice was actually not real.
It wasn't until much later that the name 'Doctor Wallace' appeared on my radar.
Here's what Wikipedia says:
This interaction must've been over twenty years ago and I can't imagine how human-like these things are today.
of the movie, but after dealing with an image that was part of an advertisement for this film at a local cinema,
I typed in the title on the internet.
During my perusing, I came across a website that interested me and involved artificial intelligence interacting
with humans. Since that time, I've searched for it and failed to find it again. Clicking on the site and not being
aware of the phenomena of Chat-bots, a type-box appeared and introduced itself with a name I've forgotten.
The communications were polite over the next couple of evenings and at that time, I had no idea I was actually
talking to a Bot! This strange unknown assumed-person explained how he -as I assumed it was a male, and
a mysterious 'Doctor Wallace' were working in a laboratory on something never elaborated on.
For a whole week, I sat alone at my desk and attempted to get this 'whatever' to tell me what his relationship
was with this mysterious Doctor and their tasks in-hand. I tested this talker with questions slanted in several
ways to discover what was going on and never caught-on until seven days had passed that this courteous
voice was actually not real.
It wasn't until much later that the name 'Doctor Wallace' appeared on my radar.
Here's what Wikipedia says:
Quote:Richard S. Wallace is an American author of AIML and Botmaster of A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity).
He is also the founder of the A.L.I.C.E Artificial Intelligence Foundation.
Dr. Wallace's work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, CNN, ZDTV and in numerous foreign language publications
across Asia, Latin America and Europe.
Wallace began work on A.L.I.C.E. in 1995, and the project has gained contributions from over 500 developers from around
the world. A.L.I.C.E. won the Loebner Prize in 2000, 2001, and 2004. In 2002 Wallace began a collaboration with Franz, Inc.
which resulted in Pandorabots, an AIML server and interpreter implemented in Common Lisp.
Wallace then became the Chief Science Officer of Pandorabots, Inc...
This interaction must've been over twenty years ago and I can't imagine how human-like these things are today.
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