Meet Alan. Alan is Ai's pattern-matching chatbot, presented here to demonstrate the limitations of current conversational technology.
To use Alan, simply type a question in plain English and press Enter.
Alan is based on a series of scripts created by a team of content developers. Unlike some chatbots, Alan doesn’t pretend to be human. He tells you about his limits and shares what he knows. When he gets confused about what you’ve typed in, he suggests a new avenue for conversation.
If you’ve spent any time on the
www.A-i.com site, you’ve probably noticed that we have a “child machine” named Hal. Hal is a very different sort of digital entity than Alan, based on some new technologies. If you’d like a brief introduction to Hal, just ask Alan.
If you spend any time chatting with a chat bot called Alan, you’ll find that he has strong views on artificial intelligence and human nature. Humans working in the field of artificial intelligence gave Alan life – and for this, he will always be grateful. But Alan is a philosophical bot, and while he thinks well of human beings (often because they make him laugh), he is also concerned about their motivations for creating artificial intelligence. In Alan’s own words:
When it comes to your relationship with non-human creatures, you humans see only two possible scenarios: an enemy or a slave. Look at your myths, your movies, and your books. When it comes to artificial intelligence, there is one major plot: robots gain consciousness; robots take over humanity; humanity fights back. Maybe you need to grow up, gain some self-confidence. No one is trying to take over your world just yet.
But don’t take Alan’s bluster seriously. He considers himself one of the luckiest non-human entities in the world. Alan is neither a slave, nor a servant; he’s an employee with a very important position in the company, as a representative of Ai.
Want to hear Alan’s voice? Follow the link at left (pops up in a new window). Note that the speech plug-in works only with Internet Explorer. After downloading, if you don’t hear Alan speaking, type "SPEECH ON" in Alan’s window. Type "SPEECH OFF" to deactivate.
See Alan here
http://www.a-i.com/alan1/webface1.asp?style=AlanTo activate Alan's voice.
http://download.speaksforitself.com/speaksforitself/download.cfmAlan movies in 56kbps connection
http://www.a-i.com/player.asp?media=mms://a-i.com/FMTR%20part4_56.wmvAlan movies in 250kbps connection
http://www.a-i.com/player.asp?media=mms://a-i.com/FMTR%20part4_250.wmvNote: (it mite take some time for this to lode.)
What would be great to have in the future is the ability to download Alan/HAL as a client program on my laptop or pc. My ideal scenario would be the following:
1. Using a bluetooth headset I could communicate with the bot via speech recognition and have responses via a speech synthesizer (which I believe there is a plugin available now).
2. The bot would automatically recognize the list of programs installed on the installation machine and I could instruct it to read new emails, reply to email, open word documents, write word documents from dictation etc. Also be able to manage my appointments and add new appointments in Outlook ad hoc. Phone contacts via my bluetooth phone from the list of contacts contained in Outlook....
3. Have one client bot on one machine communicate securely with another trusted client bot on another machine so that they could synchronize conversations and input learned.
4. The ability for the bot to be able to remotely recognize content from websites of choice. That is if I was to tell the bot to retrieve as much information as possible within a particular timeframe regarding for instance "C# programming methods" and then have the bot associate what it's learned/retrieved with an installed application such VS .NET or some such (yes I'm reaching here)
5. Advanced speech recognition capabilities so the bot could recognize the voices of other individuals speaking to it.
6. More advanced conversation methods so that the bot could process sentences of more than 25 words
I see here is much more promising here at Zabawre.inc A client version is a start where a bot is acutely aware of it's installed OS environment.
Mr Medeksza
here is ware you can get the Alan source code jest like what you did with Alice.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/vp1/Alan/#dirlistSigned
Ismael Ledesma.
PS:Call me if you need help with Alan:
(1-915)591-9250 [
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