[alicebot-aiethics] Greeting

[Dr. Richard S. Wallace]

Hello and thank you for your message!

The ALICE A.I. Foundation welcomes all inquiries about A.L.I.C.E.,
Chat robots, and Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML).

Unfortunately we do not have the resources to answer each question
individually.

Does A.L.I.C.E. pass the Turing Test? Our data suggests the answer is yes,
at least, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, for some of the people, some of the
time. We have identified three categories of clients A, B and C. The A
group, 10 percent to 20 percent of the total, are abusive. Category A
clients abuse the robot verbally, using language that is vulgar,
scatalogical, or pornographic.
Category B clients, perhaps 60 percent to 80 percent of the total are
"average" clients. Category C clients are "critics" or "computer experts"
who have some idea what is happening behind the curtain, and cannot or do
not suspend their disbelief. Category C clients report unsatisfactory
experiences with A.L.I.C.E. much more often than average clients, who
sometimes spend several hours conversing with the bot up to dialogue lengths
of 800 exchanges. The objection that A.L.I.C.E. is a "poor A.I." is like
saying that soap operas are poor drama. The content of the A.L.I.C.E.'s
brain consists of material that the average person on the internet wants to
talk about with a bot.


The fastest way to get an answer to your question is to post it to one of
ALICE and AIML mailing lists at http://alicebot.org/mailing-lists.html

There is a very active community of Botmasters and developers from all
around the world, who are usually happy to provide answers to all levels of
AIML questions.

Thanks again for your interest in A.L.I.C.E. and AIML!

Best regards,


Dr. Richard S. Wallace
Chairman, ALICE A.I. Foundation

p.s. You can read an article about me in the New York Times Magazine at
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/07WALLACE.html

p.p.s. I am passing along an announcement about a new (free for now) bot
hosting service:


   May 21, 2002
   www.pandorabots.com

   You are looking at an experimental software robot
   (also known as a bot) hosting service.  From any
   browser, you may create your own robots and publish
   your robots - making them available to anyone with a
   browser.

   This site will be evolving rapidly - new
   capabilities such as voice recognition, text to
   speech synthesis, invoking programs on remote or
   local machines, content development tools,
   e-commerce support, cartoon animations are under
   development now.

   Inquiries and problem reports should be sent to
   info@pandorabots.com

   The bots are based on AIML and spring entirely from the work of
   Dr. Richard Wallace and the A.L.I.C.E. and AIML free software
   community based at Www.AliceBot.Org.

   You should expect numerous changes to the Pandorabots site, so
   please save your bot creations on your own machine
   using the saving facility on the site.

   No documentation exists yet - but will come later.
   Sorry.  The bots hosted here conform in most
   respects to the bot specifications given at
   Www.AliceBot.Org.  Here is how to get started:

   1 - Create your own account
   2 - Click on "create a new bot"
   3 - give your bot a name (using any character set)
   4 - Check the box next to:

        "Automatically discover spaces between words
           (suggested for Japanese)"

        for bots using Japanese or Chinese.  English and
        other languages are unaffected by the presence or
        absence of a check mark in this box.

   5 - To put knowledge into your newly created bot...

        Check one of the two boxs next to:
                  "Standard AIML Sept 2001"
                  "Dr Wallace's A.L.I.C.E march 2002"

        We recommend you check:
                  "Dr Wallace's A.L.I.C.E march 2002"

       Bots completely devoid of knowledge are created
       by leaving both boxes unchecked.

   6 - Click on "Create Bot"

   7 - Click on "Build and Run" to talk to the bot or
       click on "Publish" it and have anyone talk to it.


   This is an experimental site only.  We accept no
   liability for loss of data or any other problems
   arising from the use of these robots.  We expect
   this site to evolve rather quickly with new
   capabilities.

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Note from Dr. Wallace to AIML community: I am passing this announcement
along for
informational purposes only.  This is not a product endorsement.

Also, please use your best judgement sending Pandorabots specific
tech support questions to info@pandorabots.com.  Please continue to use
alicebot.org mailing lists for general AIML discussion.





----- Original Message -----
From: gary holubec
To: alicebot-aiethics@list.alicebot.org
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 1:43 AM
Subject: [alicebot-aiethics] Greeting


Good morning, Alice.




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