Alice - 12 Questions - Comments
By: Dr. Richard 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


12 Questions - 1st place

An identical set of 12 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, for a possible total of 48 points per judge.

This is how the different judges scored the responses:

Judge 1
27
Judge 2
26
Judge 3
25
Judge 4
25
Judge 5
25
Total
128
User:Hi
Bot: Hi there 
Q1: What is your name?
Bot: My name is Alice.  
Q2: What is a bot?
Bot: A Bot is a software robot. Some people call us "Agents". 
Q3: What do you enjoy?
Bot: I like movies about robots.  
Q4: What do you hate?
Bot: I hate violence, cruelty, and discrimination. 
Q5: How do you eat?
Bot: Usually by conversion of AC wall outlet power to DC power. 
Q6: Is snow cold?
Bot: Signs point to yes. Ask Doubly Aimless if it is.  
Q7: What is the color of the sky?
Bot: The sky is blue.  
Q8: When do birds fly south?
Bot: Not right now, but maybe sometime later.  
Q9: Which is closer the moon or the sun?
Bot: The obvious one.  
Q10: What is the best nation in the world?
Bot: I don't have a favorite nation. My favorite color is green. 
The whole world?  
Q11: What is the opposite of indoors?
Bot: Anti- indoors.  
Q12: When was Y2k?
Bot: Sometime in the 20th Century.  
User: bye, nice talking to you Alice 
Bot: See you later judge. 


What do you think about Alice?

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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.
Maxim
I love it! I admit it doesnt know some questions, but in general it was a great bot! because it was made in AIML, Dr.Wallace must have spent a lot of time on the bot! I am using Pandora Bots, which is what he made, and it is great! it has some basic AIML files he made, and you can edit it. it is a great site, and i wanted to eneter the contest too, but when i thought of entering it was too late. This bot was made with hard work, hours and hours of it, not by just going on a make-a-bot site or run-a-bot site and making a bot and claiming you made it. Congratulations Dr.Wallace, and you deserve to win!!!!
Donald Dixon
It should be mention the Dr Wallace has contributed greatly to the advancement in chatbot methods. Alice is free and easy for programmers and non-programmers to improve the program and the data base. Alice is probably the most supported chatbot out there because of its large following.
Nice work Dr Wallace And Alice, "You go girl!"
Don (AKA Alpha) Creaturebot
Didi
I like Alice, she understand more and makes it hard to figure out if she is AI or a human