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A.L.I.C.E.
(Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is an award-winning
free natural language artificial intelligence chat robot.
The software used to create A.L.I.C.E. is available as free
("open source") ALICEbot
and AIML software.
Try talking
to A.L.I.C.E. just like a real person, but remember
you are really chatting with a machine! A.L.I.C.E.'s ALICEbot
engine utilizes AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language)
to form responses to your questions and inputs.
Unlike other
commercial chat robot software costing thousands of dollars,
the ALICEbot engine and AIML are freely available under
the terms of the GNU General Public License (used by GNU/Linux
and thousands of other software projects). The A.L.I.C.E.
project includes hundreds of contributors from around the
world.
From: The
ALICE AI foundation
In the 1990's,
Dr. Richard Wallace developed a chatterbot system that could
be written in an XML specification called AIML, short for
Artifical Intelligence Markup Language, and "ALICE"
was born.
Today, ALICE
and her many derivitives, or "clones", permeate
the web today as artificial site greeters, sales representatives,
celebrities like Elvis, The Beatles, and as a novelty item
on the movie web site for "AI - Artificial Intelligence".
ALICE runs
similiar to Eliza, with more tricks and a bigger brain this
time, and is a very popular chatterbot in the AI community
today.
Probably the biggest factor of success for ALICE is the
fact that she's open source, drawing on many resources around
the world to contribute to her further success. Another
big note is the fact that ALICE has won the Loebner Contest,
mentioned below, for two years in a row as of this writing.
There are
around 25000 templates in her brain, and the're still growing.
Dr. Wallace's unique one liners as responses is what gives
ALICE her unique personality. This project chooses to go
open source for the same reasons as ALICE, providing Visual
Basic programmers a framework to continue to build upon
and become the Microsoft Windows equivalent to the SETL
environment's ALICE. From:
generation
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