AI: If You're Lonely, Try Chatterbots

From: Doug Bailey (Doug.Bailey@ey.com)
Date: Thu Apr 08 1999 - 09:22:56 MDT


Excerpt from "The New Straits Times" (4/5/99), Copyright 1999

THE first six sites will put you in touch with chatterbots
ready to receive your questions; the remaining sites feature
information about chatterbot technology and artificial intelligence.

* Alice Nexis (http://birch.eecs.lehigh.edu/alice): Richard
Wallace's chatterbot has the evasive style of a politician.
   
* Neuromedia (http://www.neuromedia.com): Corporate chatterbot
answers questions about Neuromedia's chatterbot software.

* Barry (http://www.fringeware.com/bot/barry.html): Fringeware's
Barry De Facto customer service chatterbot and this year's Turing
test titleholder.

* Julia's home page (http://www.fuzine.com/mlm/julia.html): Perhaps
the most widely used chatterbot, Julia lives all over the Internet
in text-based chat rooms.

* Start (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/infolab/start.html):
Massachusetts Institute of Technology chatterbot answers questions
about the university's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and world
geography.

* The Simon Laven page (http://www.toptown.com/hp/sjlaven): A chatterbot
fan page with news, reviews and a link to Eliza, a chatterbot that
simulates a psychoanalyst's conversation with a patient.

* Botspot (http://www.botspot.com): A comprehensive guide to all types
of bot designs and applications.

* The Forbin Project (http://birch.eecs.lehigh.edu/alice/forbin.html):
This site documents conversations between chatterbots. Its name is
taken from a 1969 film in which a Russian supercomputer and an
American one plot to take over the world.

* Home page of the Loebner Prize (http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-
prize.html): Past winners, sample dialogues and entry information
from the annual Turing test.

Doug Bailey
doug.bailey@ey.com
nanotech@cwix.com



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