Comments on: What is a chatbot? er, chatterbot? http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/01/15/what-is-a-chatbot-er-chatterbot/ a blog and podcast dedicated to discussing text arts forms Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:29:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en Writer Response Theory 2004-2005 wrt@writerresponsetheory.org (Writer Response Theory) wrt@writerresponsetheory.org Talk Radio Comment-cast: What is a chatbot? er, chatterbot? Comment-cast: What is a chatbot? er, chatterbot? Writer Response Theory Writer Response Theory wrt@writerresponsetheory.org http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/iTWRT.JPG WRT: Writer Response Theory http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress 144 144 by: Jeroen http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/01/15/what-is-a-chatbot-er-chatterbot/#comment-239867 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:18:02 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/01/15/what-is-a-chatbot-er-chatterbot/#comment-239867 Mostly when I talk about a "Bot" I mostly refer to an stand-alone program that interferes with another running program (Like a game) And automates keystrokes (And sometimes even mouseclicks), which is mostly illegal (Like in games such as World of Warcraft). Mostly when I talk about a “Bot” I mostly refer to an stand-alone program that interferes with another running program (Like a game) And automates keystrokes (And sometimes even mouseclicks), which is mostly illegal (Like in games such as World of Warcraft).

]]> Jeroen Mostly when I talk about a "Bot" I mostly refer to an stand-alone program that interferes with another running program ... Mostly when I talk about a "Bot" I mostly refer to an stand-alone program that interferes with another running program ... by: John Lorry http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/01/15/what-is-a-chatbot-er-chatterbot/#comment-44259 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:50:53 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/01/15/what-is-a-chatbot-er-chatterbot/#comment-44259 The program Virtual Woman, a chatbot that precedes A. L. I. C. E. but seems to be after Eliza, refers to itself in its 1980's documentation for the DOS version that I have as a "Virtual Human". There is no reference to it as a bot of any kind. Humorously enough, the DOS version still runs on my Windows Vista machine. I remember that Richard Wallace's original college web site announcing Alice had a section listing "influences" that listed, among other things, Virtual Woman, but when the site moved to its own server that link disappeared...I'm assuming for politically correct reasons. The original site was still on its EDU server up until a few years ago; if anyone can find it again it would be interesting to see if he was using the term chatbot then or something else. As the site could easily be dated it could give a snapshot of the terms in use at the time. The program Virtual Woman, a chatbot that precedes A. L. I. C. E. but seems to be after Eliza, refers to itself in its 1980’s documentation for the DOS version that I have as a “Virtual Human”. There is no reference to it as a bot of any kind. Humorously enough, the DOS version still runs on my Windows Vista machine. I remember that Richard Wallace’s original college web site announcing Alice had a section listing “influences” that listed, among other things, Virtual Woman, but when the site moved to its own server that link disappeared…I’m assuming for politically correct reasons. The original site was still on its EDU server up until a few years ago; if anyone can find it again it would be interesting to see if he was using the term chatbot then or something else. As the site could easily be dated it could give a snapshot of the terms in use at the time.

]]> John Lorry The program Virtual Woman, a chatbot that precedes A. L. I. C. E. but seems to be after Eliza, ... The program Virtual Woman, a chatbot that precedes A. L. I. C. E. but seems to be after Eliza, ... by: Ian Parker http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/01/15/what-is-a-chatbot-er-chatterbot/#comment-36298 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:27:24 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/01/15/what-is-a-chatbot-er-chatterbot/#comment-36298 http://ipai.blogspot.com http://ipai1.blogspot.com ?Quieres dormir con fosforo ?" How can we talk about chatterboxes when the basic understanding - as indicated by translation is so poor. I am unimressed with Alice. I got a translation :- "El barco attravesta una cerradura" and I then proceeded to talk about a holiday on the Grand Union canal. As predicted she fell apart. I was also going to speak to her about elastic stations (The season of spring = "La estacion de resorte) but did not get round to it. To me it is useless to talk about chatting or precision search until there is a system that can put primavera ,éclusia and correspondento first in terms of probability listing. live.com gives retrievals which seem to me to be spot on. This uses Latent Semantic Indexing. This is where research should be directed. My views are expressed in more detail in the above blogs/ http://ipai.blogspot.com
http://ipai1.blogspot.com
?Quieres dormir con fosforo ?” How can we talk about chatterboxes when the basic understanding - as indicated by translation is so poor. I am unimressed with Alice. I got a translation :- “El barco attravesta una cerradura” and I then proceeded to talk about a holiday on the Grand Union canal. As predicted she fell apart.
I was also going to speak to her about elastic stations (The season of spring = “La estacion de resorte) but did not get round to it.
To me it is useless to talk about chatting or precision search until there is a system that can put primavera ,éclusia and correspondento first in terms of probability listing.
live.com gives retrievals which seem to me to be spot on. This uses Latent Semantic Indexing. This is where research should be directed.

My views are expressed in more detail in the above blogs/

]]> Ian Parker http://ipai.blogspot.com http://ipai1.blogspot.com ?Quieres dormir con fosforo ?" How can we talk about chatterboxes when the basic understanding - as indicated by ... http://ipai.blogspot.com http://ipai1.blogspot.com ?Quieres dormir con fosforo ?" How can we talk about chatterboxes when the basic understanding - as indicated by ... by: WRT: Writer Response Theory » Blog Archive » Chatbot Idol–Contesting Innovation http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/01/15/what-is-a-chatbot-er-chatterbot/#comment-6342 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:24:43 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/01/15/what-is-a-chatbot-er-chatterbot/#comment-6342 [...] In 1991, Hugh Loebner offered $100,000 to the first person who could answer Turing’s challenge and in doing initiated the Loebner Prize competition.  Although no one one has successfully answered the challenge, botmasters continue to vy annually for the smaller partial prize ($2000).  In effect a whole field of practitioners was inspired by this competition.  Rollo Carpenter’s Jabberwacky (discussed here) won the most recent round.  (Didn’t Turing’s initial [con]Test initiate these contests, albeit without the structure of the rules and reward?) [...] […] In 1991, Hugh Loebner offered $100,000 to the first person who could answer Turing’s challenge and in doing initiated the Loebner Prize competition.  Although no one one has successfully answered the challenge, botmasters continue to vy annually for the smaller partial prize ($2000).  In effect a whole field of practitioners was inspired by this competition.  Rollo Carpenter’s Jabberwacky (discussed here) won the most recent round.  (Didn’t Turing’s initial [con]Test initiate these contests, albeit without the structure of the rules and reward?) […]

]]> WRT: Writer Response Theory » Blog Archive » Chatbot Idol–Contesting Innovation [...] In 1991, Hugh Loebner offered $100,000 to the first person who could answer Turing’s challenge and in doing initiated ... [...] In 1991, Hugh Loebner offered $100,000 to the first person who could answer Turing’s challenge and in doing initiated ... by: Huma Shah http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/01/15/what-is-a-chatbot-er-chatterbot/#comment-1707 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:13:19 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/01/15/what-is-a-chatbot-er-chatterbot/#comment-1707 More linguistic snobbery: ACE = artificial conversational entity First introduced in paper "A.L.I.C.E.: an ACE in Digitaland" (in computational linguistics track of European Conference on Computing & Philosophy, Vasteras, Sweden, June 2005). Why? To distinguish between the 'naturals' - the Confederates (hidden humans) from the artificial machines/programmes participating in Loebner's Contests for Artificial Intelligence. More linguistic snobbery:

ACE = artificial conversational entity

First introduced in paper “A.L.I.C.E.: an ACE in Digitaland” (in computational linguistics track of European Conference on Computing & Philosophy, Vasteras, Sweden, June 2005).

Why? To distinguish between the ‘naturals’ - the Confederates (hidden humans) from the artificial machines/programmes participating in Loebner’s Contests for Artificial Intelligence.

]]> Huma Shah More linguistic snobbery: ACE = artificial conversational entity First introduced in paper "A.L.I.C.E.: an ACE in Digitaland" (in computational linguistics track of ... More linguistic snobbery: ACE = artificial conversational entity First introduced in paper "A.L.I.C.E.: an ACE in Digitaland" (in computational linguistics track of ...