Brute-Force Chatbot Game

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 15 of October , 2008 at 2:09 am

On Monday we posted about the Loebner Prize, which is awarded every year to the most human piece of chat software. Making a computer seem human is a complex problem, but it doesn’t necessarily require a complex solution: instead of using brains, you can use brawn.

The Chatbot Game is an attempt to create a chatbot using brute-force computing, which just looks at the user’s input and then searches through a gigantic database of words and phrases to find an appropriate response. The Chatbot Game crowd sources its database, the idea being that if enough people participate (and anybody can, quite easily), the Chatbot will have perfect answers for any conceivable question. It’s not quite there yet, but it’s already the most convincing chatbot I’ve ever talked to. Try it out for yourself:

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[ Chatbot Game ]

Thanks Amir!

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Comment by Ironman

Made Wednesday, 15 of October , 2008 at 2:21 pm

Howdy,

I’m back.

a major improvement that could increase the believability, remembering context….

if i say yes to one of it’s questions, it should be able to give flaunt it in my face that it was right about subject A.

Comment by llama

Made Wednesday, 15 of October , 2008 at 3:33 pm

Chatbot: Hello there! What’s on your mind these days?
You: my eagle project and homework
Chatbot: Is that so?
You: yeah
Chatbot: “Okay Then, What’s up?”
You: listening to music
Chatbot: you said ‘to’ did you mean ‘too’ or ‘two’? or is my electronic brain fried….
You: i meant to
Chatbot: I will NOT remember that :P
You: please dont
Chatbot: You have good manners. You must have listened when your programmers told you to say “please” and “thank you”.
You: hahaha i guess so
Chatbot: You guess? Can’t you be certain?
You: yeah i can be certain
Chatbot: Then prove it.
You: i was born and raised by my mother and father so i assume they taught me to say please and thank you
Chatbot: Tell me about your mother.
You: shes old and cranky
Chatbot: But not as old as Mccain!
You: hahahaha
Chatbot: LOL!

i just about peed my pants when i saw the mccain burn!

Comment by Ironman

Made Thursday, 16 of October , 2008 at 11:28 am

that’s pretty funny.

Comment by ethan454

Made Monday, 20 of October , 2008 at 1:14 pm

with me it was always breaking into knock knock jokes!