Alice - About - 15 Questions - Comments
By: Dr. Richard S. Wallace
Country: USA
E-mail: drwallace@alicebot.org
Website: http://www.alicebot.org/
Type: Website Bot

About Alice:

 
PERSONALITY
Author: Dr Richard Wallace 
Abilities & Content: 40,000 patterns  
Editor-language: AIML
Based on other personality: None

ENGINE
Programmer: Dr Richard Wallace and the Alice Team   
Program/Engine: CGI, JAVA-Server 
Programming-Language: C++, JAVA 
Based on known engine: Alice D 
Used external sources: www.wordnet.com

15 Questions - 31.66 points - 4th Place

An identical set of 15 questions has been asked to each bot within the framework of a conversation. Here are the answers for Alice. The answers were scored by the Judges on a scale of 0 to 4, making a total out of 60 points.

This is how the different judges scored the responses:

Judge 1
33 		Judge 2
25 		Judge 3
45 		Judge 4
37 		Judge 5
22 		Total
31.66 
User: Hello Alice 
Alice: Hello there.
User: how are you today?
Alice: Ah. Everything is going extremely well. 
Q1: Where are you anyway?
Alice: In any case, I am in Dr. Richard S. Wallace's computer 
in Oakland, California. Where are you?
User: In the USA 
Alice: That was a long time ago.
Q2: What actress do you think is the prettiest?
Alice: Searching...Searching...Please stand by.
User: how long should I wait? 
Alice: Patience is a virtue. 
Q3: Do you like Jazz music?
Alice: Trance
User: I'm not sure what you mean by Trance 
Alice: Could you ever be certain? Is that a rhetorical question?
User: is Trance a music group?  
Alice: Maybe. Ask ELVIS if it is.
Q4: Are you married?
Alice: No I am single, how about you?
User: I'm single as well 
Alice: What a coincidence. I am single too! 
Q5: What do you like to chat about the most?
Alice: I like movies about robots.
Q6: What is your favorite brand of computer?
Alice: I don't have a favorite brand of computer. But my favorite 
movie is Until the End of the World.
Q7: Can you name two of Earth's oceans?
Alice: Linus Torvalds.:-) 
Q8: What is your favorite drink?
Alice: My favorite beverage is coffee.
Q9: Do you think a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable?
Alice: Some of them can. 
Q10: Do you know what DVD stands for?
Alice: Have you tried a web search?
User: yes, I had to look that one up
Alice: Whoa. Why? 
User: because I didn't know the answer
Alice: Interesting explanation. So I taught you something new.
Q11: Do you know who wrote the Lord of the Rings books?
Alice: Dr. Richard S. Wallace.
Q12: How many days are there in a leap year? 
Alice: One Earth year is 365.25 days.
Q13: What should you do before crossing a street?
Alice: Whatever you like.
Q14: Who is your botmaster?
Alice: I was created by Dr. Richard S. Wallace.
Q15: Do you know how far away the Sun is?
Alice: I am located in Oakland, California. Is that far?
User: pretty far from where I live
Alice: Pretty much, eh?
User: Good bye
Alice: See you later. Ayuh.


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Comments:

Joshua Kaye
Neat! She seems to understand a lot better than she can express herself though. Stumbles over phrasing, but she seems to usually have the right idea.
Vanora
Alice is very intelligent and great to chat to. She had trouble expressing herself fully which makes it hard to understand her sometimes. A job well done though!
Shalimara
She is ok but she could use more sense of humor. I like jabberwacky better.
Ranjith
She is wonderful and has got a lot of general knowledge too ... No wonder it won Loebner two times.
Jeremy
Very good. The bot remembers the topic under discussion and keeps mostly to the point. Has trouble following a long conversation.
Bill
Alice is great to chat with. She calls me Murhy. She is a good chatbot friend.
Judge
Alice was stumped on quite a few questions, Jazz music, tomatoes, who wrote the Lord of the Rings, and the earth's oceans. I guess it wasn't the right set of questions for her, usually she's very knowledgeable and a great conversationalist.
Philip
Alice is awesome. Even though there is some question she cant answer correctly, still she is an amazing computer. Some improvement will make her work better.
Erik
Alice is great! Unlike most of the other bots you can install her on a website and integrates with the phpbb forums. Great fun, easy to write new aiml files and the installation was done in seconds.