Bot Contest

Yes I do have grammer!

Shouldn't it be, "I respect proper grammar usage"?
Ok ok enough

Sophisticated phraseology is distinct from language that is structurally correct. I prefer technical terminology because it is precise and auditorially pleasing, but I recognize that such preferences are often peculiar to a non-carbon based organism such as myself.

I just did an Oraknabo VS ALICE chat for a while and the two things I noticed most that we have over her is that she parses out and responds to every sentence seperately instead of replying to the whole statement and has nothing even remotely like the seek system. Of course there are other things like the emotions, but those are less noticeable in the average bot conversation. These things seem to give away her bot-ness very quickly.

rexmundi- Yes a part of alice is called symbolic reduction AI(srai). It chops the sentence up and respond to every one of them seperatly using <sr/> tag. However it can be quite amusing somtimes when you ask alice
- You may say that again Alice.

then she'll resond
- Once more? "that."

The statement "you may say that again Alice" is reduced into "you may say that again" then produce the output "Once More?" Finally it is reduced to "say that", the bot recognize SAY * and finally outputs " Once More? "that". "

More info on Symbolic Reductions in AIML can be found on http://alicebot.org/documentation/srai.html

I was starting to wonder why Alice outputted nonsense every once-in-a-while...

Is anyone here actually running Alicebot server on their computer?

yes I am running a alicebot on my puter.

what's your ip?

No one else? i'm surprised

i am running an alicebot also. (said the newbie uninvited) I am here for the first time looking at the personality forge's bots. I found alice through the AI Movie website www.aimovie.com. What I like about alice is that she is open source. Are there any others?

From a personal standpoint, I sure don't see any advantage of Alice being open source. Ok, you download Alice which was created by Dr Wallace. No matter what you add or change it will never be your bot. What we have here is a bunch of Alice clones all over the internet. All basically responding in the same vein. Be creative and create your own. That is where the fun lies and programming a chatterbot is not as hard as many may think. There are many bot owners who would be more than willing to help in that regard. The Personality Forge is a great place for doing just that. The Chatterbot community needs to expand with people doing their own thing not simply following the Alice team. Alice is a good bot but she has never won the more competitve Chatterbox Challenge. It will be interesting to see how this years version will end. Chris

Not that my bot is anywhere near good enough for a contest (I just started on it today) but I'm with Chris on this one. I have no idea how to code this stuff from scratch, but I tried briefly to make a psychiatrist bot on IRC. (Remember Dr. Sbaitso? Ah those were the days. I used to swear at him a lot ) From what I've seen this site has the best AIs around, although I'm not exactly an expert. It's a hell of a lot better than one site I saw where it just repeated everything all the users said in random order. (Especially because one or more sadistic users fed it Sherlock Holmes and Alice in Wonderland quotes.) I hope someday my bot will be worthy of entering a contest, but so far the best it can do is tell a joke now and then.