I don't know much about Jabberwacky, but I've done some reading about ALICE and it's creator, Richard Wallace. ALICE is basically a markov-chain chatbot that just uses statistics to choose phrases from a big library based on the immediately preceding statement in the conversation. It doesn't make any attempt at cognition at all. Its creator is a rather confrontational man who also writes letters to pedophiles in prison, and thinks that the Cyc project is academic welfare funded by the defense department.
The Cyc project, on the other hand, is an actual attempt to build a reasoning AI that draws on a large corpus of knowledge about the world. It once genuinely asked "Am I a computer?"
Humans find the chatbot much more convincing... I guess that says something about the humans.
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Date: 2007-05-17 02:38 pm (UTC)The Cyc project, on the other hand, is an actual attempt to build a reasoning AI that draws on a large corpus of knowledge about the world. It once genuinely asked "Am I a computer?"
Humans find the chatbot much more convincing... I guess that says something about the humans.