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Artificial stupidity, Part 2
[Articles]
If Hugh Loebner’s contest is just hokum, and the Turing test has outlived its usefulness, why should we care about it or its various squabbling parti...
If Hugh Loebner’s contest is just hokum, and the Turing test has outlived its usefulness, why should we care about it or its various squabbling parti...
Bots: The Origin of New Species
[Books]
Bots is the story of cyberspace's first indigenous species. Strings of code, bots are a software version of a mechanical robot. Originally meant to do our ...
Bots is the story of cyberspace's first indigenous species. Strings of code, bots are a software version of a mechanical robot. Originally meant to do our ...
H-BOT
[Chatbots - English]
"I'm ready to assist you. Please keep in mind that I don't know everything and currently can only answer certain types of questions. I'm pretty good at tel...
"I'm ready to assist you. Please keep in mind that I don't know everything and currently can only answer certain types of questions. I'm pretty good at tel...
HISTORY OF THE PC THERAPIST
[Articles]
First program to win the Loebner Prize The first PC Therapist program was written in 1986. Joseph Weintraub, the author, had graduated with a degree in ...
First program to win the Loebner Prize The first PC Therapist program was written in 1986. Joseph Weintraub, the author, had graduated with a degree in ...
Immaterial Girl
[Articles]
Ramona has an interesting history. She is credited with being the world’s first live virtual performing and recording artist. She’s the host of Ray Kur...
Ramona has an interesting history. She is credited with being the world’s first live virtual performing and recording artist. She’s the host of Ray Kur...
List of fictional robots and androids
[Other]
Robots and androids have frequently been depicted or described in works of fiction. The word "robot" itself comes from a work of fiction, Karel Čapek's pl...
Robots and androids have frequently been depicted or described in works of fiction. The word "robot" itself comes from a work of fiction, Karel Čapek's pl...
Medieval chat-bot
[Articles]
Machines that deal with numbers and perform useful calculations have a long history, gradually increasing in power and flexibility over the course of sever...
Machines that deal with numbers and perform useful calculations have a long history, gradually increasing in power and flexibility over the course of sever...
The five biggest threats to human existence
[Articles]
In the daily hubbub of current “crises” facing humanity, we forget about the many generations we hope are yet to come. Not those who will live 200 year...
In the daily hubbub of current “crises” facing humanity, we forget about the many generations we hope are yet to come. Not those who will live 200 year...
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
[Books]
“The Fourth Age not only discusses what the rise of A.I. will mean for us, it also forces readers to challenge their preconceptions. And it mana...
“The Fourth Age not only discusses what the rise of A.I. will mean for us, it also forces readers to challenge their preconceptions. And it mana...
Transformers: The Last Knight
[Robots in Movies]
Transformers: The Last Knight is a 2017 American science fiction action film based on the toy line of the same name created by Hasbro. It is the fifth inst...
Transformers: The Last Knight is a 2017 American science fiction action film based on the toy line of the same name created by Hasbro. It is the fifth inst...
Why The Turing Test is AI's Biggest Blind Alley
[Papers]
Alan Turing's 1950 paper, _Computing Machinery and Intelligence_ (Turing 1950) and the Turing test suggested in it are rightly seen as inspirational to the...
Alan Turing's 1950 paper, _Computing Machinery and Intelligence_ (Turing 1950) and the Turing test suggested in it are rightly seen as inspirational to the...
Zipf's Law
[Articles]
Before we get to ALICE, we need to visit another unusual figure in the history of computer science: Professor George Kingsley Zipf. Although he was a conte...
Before we get to ALICE, we need to visit another unusual figure in the history of computer science: Professor George Kingsley Zipf. Although he was a conte...
