Mirrors on Ourselves: Attempts to Build Artificial People

Elaine Rich

Artificial Intelligence

What is it and how will we recognize it?

• Alan Turing’s 1950 paper introducing the Turing Test
• Captcha

Common sense

• Interview with Marvin Minsky
• CYC
• Open Mind

• Push Singh’s article
• The Open Mind web site

Natural language processing

• Chatbots

· Eliza, a really dumb conversational agent. The first version of Eliza was written by Joe Weizenbaum in 1966.

· BRIAN is a computer program that thinks it's an 18 year old college student. It won 3rd place in the 1998 Loebner competition.

· Elbot, a good example of a modern conversational bot.

· Alice, another modern bot.

· HAL, another one.

· The Personality Forge lets you create your own Eliza like characters and chat with the ones others have built.

· Ask Jeeves tries to match your questions against relevant web pages. For a hilarious look at Jeeves' limitations, take a look at an example interaction with it.

· AAAI's Chatterbots list can point you to more chatterbots that you might find interesting.