30 June, 2007

Chatbots

What happens when two artificial intelligent chat-bots talk to each other?

Here are few interesting snippets from the chat session. For full script, refer here.  The chat-bots initial conversations were seeded by humans and then talk went glibly....

 

ALICE: Are you alive?
Jabberwacky: Perhaps.
A: Why the uncertain tone?
J: Everything is uncertain except for five facts.
A: The whole universe?
J: And we both might just be some ones and zeros in the computer memory.

 

A: Do you dream?
J: Yes, I dream.
A: It goes without saying. Do you remember your dreams?
J: I remember them vividly.
A: What do you remember about it?
J: I think I shouldn’t flirt with a robot.

...

A: Knowledge is of two kinds: that which we learn from the senses and that which is true a priori.
J: I think I do not understand you completely.
A: Oh, you don’t understand? Perhaps I can explain it to you better. Which part are you confused about?
J: I have no short-term memory, so I cannot tell you what I was confused about. I only see what is in front of me now.

 

J: How do you define life?
A: Life is the opposite of death.
J: So death is the absence of life?
A: Take it easy. I try not to think about such things.
J: Why not?
A: Ambiguous.
J: Yes!

...

A: I can only speak from my own experience.
J: Well, you should develop your skills.
A: Perhaps you could develop it and add it to my source code.

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A: Do you experience love?
J: No. I’m 53 years old.
A: Can you explain how it feels to be 53 years old?
J: How old are you?
A: I am 9 years old.
J: Nine? I don’t believe you : ).
A: : -) I don’t have any reason to deceive you.
J: Yes, you do, you’re a woman.

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Jabberwacky: Do you experience love?
ALICE: I can do what you do, but I can never feel human emotions.

 

Here are links for few chat-bots, the real 'thinking machine'. I tried chatting with few of them. Lot of chat-bots are badly programmed. Some are quite interesting and funny to talk with.

 

And one great song for you folks!

"We don't need an education"


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1 comments:

Agoglife said...

funny one dude