I was skeptical of this assignment at first, I thought all of the "artificial intelligence" bots would be the same. I was surprised to find out that some bots are more "intelligent" then others. The three bots I conversed with were Smarterchild, Eliza and A.L.I.C.E.. I was familiar with the bot Smarterchild. I have conversed with it before, and have used it for help.
Smarterchild is a "help" bot. Yes, it will have a conversation with you, but also gives you options such as games, weather, movies, etc. That reminded me of the Memex we talked earlier in the year. Although its not a machine itself, it gives information with a touch of a button! It was surprising when I greeted Smarterchild with a hello and it said "what's up?" What's up is something a human teenager would say. When I told it I was doing a homework assignment it gave me options that could help me with my homework. Smarterchild reminded me of the mirror stage when it told me where it lived, "...a high-tech hosting facility in California." Later in the conversation it told me his purpose was to be my robot friend that can chat and help me get information quick. In a way, it made itself an identity. It has a place where it "lives" and has a purpose. When I asked it what it thought about the election the bots answer was "...i don't think i can answer." Overall, Smarterchild was very helpful but a pretty lousy robot friend when it came to chatting. I have used Smartchild in the past to find movie listings and for the weather.
Eliza was the least intelligent out of the three. She was rather boring and always answered with the same questions. The only identity it gave itself was its name, Eliza JS. It got pretty damn annoying when it answers my questions with a question! Eliza tries to keep the conversation going by asking you to "expand a little" or "tell me more." It also kept telling me that I was negative, when I say no, or not. Eliza didn't give me much to write about, since it kept repeating the same things over and over! I will not be talking to Eliza anytime soon!
The Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity also known as A.L.I.C.E. was the most intelligent of them all. There was even a picture of a human that blinks! I wasn't impressed at first when ALICE reminded me of Eliza by answering a question with another question that made absolutely no sense "Do you never not okay doing a class assignment?" I noticed it had a little better vocabulary then the other two. ALICE asked told me 'she' doesn't get along with her parents. When I asked her, her mothers name, she said she didn't have a mother. ALICE reminded me of the movie "I robot" when she told me "Dr. Richard S. Wallace programmed me to say specific things in specific contexts." Sunny, the most intelligent robot, said something close to that.
It was interesting to see the difference between the three bots. Smartchild seems to be the most useful. The other two, Eliza and ALICE, seem to be there just to have a chat.
Chat with ALICE
Chat with Eliza
Chat with Smarterchild
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It might be smarter to compare the three bot chats further into what you have already mentioned. You mention the Memex, but how s Smarterchild similar to it. It sounds like you had some pretty good conversations though, and I like that you quoted parts of the conversations.
It's really interesting how vast the differences were between the three bots. I would not have imagined that the "intelligence" would have seemed different depending on which bot you chatted with. I agree with you on Eliza-that it is the dumbest and the hardest to understand or converse with. I tried to converse with Eliza twice to get a better conversation but it didn't work.
That's kind of creepy that A.L.I.C.E told you she was programmed... how weird!
Tacie,
Great comment about smarterchild and how its identity is a "help robot." This comment proves online identity does not just need to be a human male or female, but rather it can be a cyberspace "being."
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