h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There's an artifical intelligence program that I've been playing around with which is based on the A.L.I.C.E project (see http://www.alicebot.org ) that responds in a reasonable way to forum based conversations.
Should/would such a thing be allowed on H2G2?

Somebody has to do this:



I agree.

Keep humanoids only on h2g2
Keep humanoids only on h2g2
Keep humanoids only on h2g2
Keep humanoids only on h2g2
Keep humanoids only on h2g2
Keep humanoids only on h2g2

C:/Error

Abort Retry Fail Cloviscat program?

As long as it IS intelligent, I'm sure anyyjing would be welcome.

I'll get me coat.

Noggin

Ahem.
Is anybody about to object? *prepares to *

Yes, I think it would be great fun if one of the researchers was an AI program like Alice. We could do the Turing test and see who could be the first to detect the bot.

I tried an experiment with Alice on a chat room. I went into a chat room and whispered to other chatters and typed their questions into Alice. It was possible to carry on a conversation for some time without them suspecting. Although maybe this says more about the sort of people who frequent chat rooms

I wonder iif they would start any Societies, and how many people would join. I can see someone tailoring an Alice-type program to behave normally for h2g2.

Have you ever had 'psychotherapy' with Eliza?

thread hogging!

Have you seen this? U197974

Though, it was a hoax

There is nothing in the house rules that states researchers have to be human. So as long as they follow the rules, like us, there is no valid reason to exclude them.

and there was me thinking of registering my fish

"I didn't want to offend people by seeming to make light of what is a serious ilness. So instead I decided to try to make a program which sounds like Fundamentalist Christian."

Am I the only one who spotted the disastrous logical flaw in this pair of sentences?

I'm not sure it was scrutinised that closely Just Bob.

IMO there was such a sign of relief that the person with these 'strong views' (to put it lightly) was not human after all.

Then we found out, it was a hoax, and he was human after all, but a very commited to his religion human.

I can't see what would be wrong with using A.L.I.C.E. to post on h2g2. It's based on AIML, (which is XML) so you'd have to program it with responses, and as long as the responses don't break the house rules it should be OK.

I found an ActiveX control for it somewhere, so all you'd need to do is link the ActiveX control to a web control or .NET to let it read and post!

Sounds like a good idea actually!

well put Loup

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i don't know A.L.I.C.E. and haven't been to the site yet. but as a general response to an AI researcher on h2, i'd say no, not yet. i think there are enough issues here already around identity. i know that humans are going to have to deal with the AI stuff eventually, but i think its too soon.

It would be nice if Commander Data, R2D2 and threepio were researchers here.

kat

Failing that, I'd settle for Brent Spiner, Kenny Baker and Anthony Daniels.

What makes you so sure that we...I mean they are not already posting here?

Blizita

Both The Beagle and Zak the Duck are non-human researchers.