ALICE: How are you, unknown person.

PeeperStorm on 19/12/2009 at 17:13

Just to help A.L.I.C.E feel more at home here, I helped her participate in the "If you found a gun" thread by pasting in whatever sentences seem to fit. The results really are disconcertingly like Some Of Us.

Human: Yep, Darth Kokius ain't kow towing to the kowtow.
ALICE: It goes without saying. Are you kow towing to the kowtow?

Human: Just saying "Lord Koki" sounds so much cooler.
ALICE: What makes you say that. Who says that?

Human: Smacks of more hatred of the rich.
ALICE: Do not ask me any more questions please.

Human: That statement actually does perk my curiosity.
ALICE:" Do not ask me any more questions please." statement actually does perk your curiosity ? I get it.

Human: And yet you are unable to explain how I'm wrong.
ALICE: I can do whatever I want.

Human: Singling out "execs" just makes you look bitter.
ALICE: Do you laugh or cry more than other people?

Human: Not sure how it is over there, but here in the States Limbaugh harped on a similiar statistic for the longest time.
ALICE: Fine as far as I know.

Vivian on 19/12/2009 at 17:17

Broke it:

......
Human: maybe to an ignorant person
ALICE: Perhaps. Interesting. I want to find out more about you.
Human: my weak point is the head
ALICE: Where did you get your weak point is the head?
Human: bad decision earlier in the game
ALICE: What makes decision earlier in the game bad?
Human: young people dressed up like sexy lettuce
ALICE: My brain contains categories, but not one that matches your last input.

demagogue on 19/12/2009 at 20:03

Quote Posted by Kolya

BTW demagogue, an AIML file, which contains the input/ouput of a chatbot, is not just "thousands of if/then routines to flat-out cover every probable input directly". You actually try to write a parser, for example:

I know. I also tried to make one before (poorly). ;)
I was over-simplifying for the point. I think the better term is covering common "templates" (guess I was thinking about the long list of 1000s of templates), and yeah there's some simple parsing, some of which is sort of clever. Chalk it up to my own limited imagination in playing with it.

I do like playing with parsers though. I used to program IF games and liked going into the code and libraries to play with the base parser itself... And from there I started playing with some of the open-source research parsers out there like LKB and KPML and ontology stuff like Cyc and PowerLoom.

Right now I found a project that got a parser running in Doom 3, so you can ask about shit in the world and AI try to answer, or give them simple commands to act in the world... And I'm trying to figure out if I can get it running in tdm (lol).

But the other half of my point wasn't so much how dumb chatbots are -- they do what they do and aren't trying to be more -- but how smart even chatbots look next to really sophisticated parsers, which break soo easily. I'm trying to play with some of these research ones and it feels like back-breaking work just to get them to answer the simplest stuff, or construct simple sentences, and even then not very robustly, seemingly much less robustly than a chatbot or template parser. So it's kind of ... discouraging to keep at it. But they are getting better and better every year, so there's some hope.

242 on 20/12/2009 at 12:42

Quote Posted by henke

ALICE: Oh. Who are "They?".
Human: uuhhhhhh SANDRA AND KEANU

:D She doesn't seem able to comprehend long stories. Funny conversation.

Xenith on 20/12/2009 at 13:26

Alice sometimes loses it, even with simple things. I did have a pleasant conversation with Kirk though.

Kirk: Xenith, try the 2G6 circuit.
Xenith: The circuit is broken sir.
Kirk: Disconnect it. ( Xenith gets a shock from it) Destroy it.
Xenith: I can't sir, it burns.
Kirk: Gentlemen.
Xenith: It burns!
Kirk: Xenith?
Xenith: It fucking burns!!!
Kirk: We don't use that kind of language on my ship.
Xenith: God damnit help me!!!

Kirk: Get the transporter room ready.
Xenith: It's broken sir.
Kirk: How could that be?
Xenith: The circuit that was responsible for the beaming device broke... and took two of my fingers with it.
Kirk: Goodbye Xenith..
Xenith: I'm not dead yet!
Kirk: We'd be delighted.
Xenith: Oh I'm sure of it.
Kirk: Why, because you're well again?
Xenith: Shut up, it's not funny.

Yeah...

Sulphur on 20/12/2009 at 13:41

They must've passed the Turing Test because we've got people who post like that here.