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13 FACTS ABOUT CHATBOTS YOU MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN

Everyone loves delicious food., we are especially interested in interesting facts about chatbots and artificial intelligence. Without further ado, let’s dive into little-known, well-known, and simply weird facts about chatbots.

The first chatbot was invented in 1966.

In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum created ELIZA, a computer program that simulates a human therapist. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and leader of groundbreaking AI research with Alan Turing and John McCarthy, as one of his scientists, Weizenbaum, said: “Doing it make people believe they’re human.I wanted to develop a program that makes you feel like you’re talking.

Like most modern chatbots, ELIZA used keywords to trigger pre-programmed responses. “His” ability to open-ended questions using the “DOCTOR” script helped fool people into thinking they were talking to a human.

Experienced computer scientist Michael Mauldin coined the term “chatterbot” in 1994. Chatbots have existed in one form or another for nearly three decades, but they didn’t have an official name until the mid-1990s when Michael Mauldin put his ban on it. A hybrid of “speech” and “robot”, Ban evolved from Mauldin’s first chatbot, his prototype, Julia.

Mauldin is now retired and spends his time competing in the Robot Fighting League.

In 1972, psychiatrist and computer scientist Kenneth Colby created a chatbot that simulated paranoid schizophrenia.
When Turing passed his test, this unique program was able to fool a human psychiatrist by more than half. PARRY played against ELIZA in the fall of 1972.

Their conversation is at least funny, ending with PARRY calling her ELIZA a “real mercenary”. You can continue reading the condensed version of the transcript. PARRY is undeniably an icon, but has been criticized by other leaders in the field. Colby defended some of the most common claims in the 1974 memo. Here are a few:

Insufficient natural language processing parameters PARRY
The show’s representation of paranoia does not model the underlying processes that lead to delusions in people with schizophrenia.
Parry did not reveal the cause of his paranoia

ALICE It was invented in 1995 and it is one of the first chatbots known today.
More than 20 years later, ALICE is still not much different from the chatbots we interact with today. ALICE uses natural language processing to provide reliable answers. She and creator Richard Wallace have won numerous awards for their ingenuity.

Ask ALICE vague, open-ended questions and she will redirect like an expert. In other words, she answers questions with questions.

Borrowing an example from Ubisend’s blog, she could ask ALICE, “Why are apples red?” and she might say, “Does everything need an explanation?”

Why not take a tour? You can always “talk” to ALICE at alice.pandorabots.com.

ALICE inspired the role in the movie Her, in which a man falls in love with an automated virtual assistant.


That nicely sums up his 2013 blockbuster Elle, best known for Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansen. Johansen will be responsible for voicing Samantha, the assistant to the virtual girlfriend of the main character Theodore in the film, played by Joaquin Phoenix. To make it short and spoiler-free:
Theo falls in love with Samantha. But monogamy doesn’t seem to be on Samantha’s agenda. She revealed to Theo that she spoke to over 8,000 other users, of whom she fell in love with over 600.

Here is another interesting fact:

Samantha is named for the text-to-speech capabilities of her early Mac computers. It is possible to “break” the chatbot.
You can “break” the chatbot and it will work just fine. It simply presents it as an artificial intelligence entity.

If you’re not sure if you’re talking to a human or a bot, you can ask a series of open-ended questions, such as:
B. “How do you feel?” »

Usually, you’ll get an inventory response indicating you’re talking to a bot. Some bots are harder to hack than others. And after all these years, ALICE is still unique.

Experts predict that by the end of this decade, users will not be able to tell the difference between humans and chatbots.
In a 2016 interview with The Verge, Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicted that by 2029, chatbots would no longer be distinguishable from humans. Chatbots have certainly come a long way since then. But time will tell whether Kurzweil’s predictions will come true.

At the time, Kurzweil and his Google were working together to create a chatbot named Danielle, based on one of Kurzweil’s original novels. There is no news on the progress of this development.

Some of Kurzweil’s other predictions are quite bold. Kurzweil says that one day programmable nanodevices will replace our cells. We could say that’s far from happening, but it’s not impossible. Not long ago, devices like pacemakers seemed out of reach.

Chatbots will soon be able to chat about almost anything, including celebrity gossip.

If you’ve ever asked Siri to tell you a joke, you probably wouldn’t be too surprised. But chatbots are not good at small talk.

Only Amazon wants to change that. In 2018, Amazon launched a contest called the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge. In this competition, we invite a group of students to create a chatbot that can chat and chat. Over time, we may not even need Twitter or Instagram to keep up with the latest celebrity scandals.

Q is your new sexist automatic assistant.
If you’ve ever used an automated personal assistant, you know that it can be programmed to use a traditional male or female voice. The world’s first non-gender assistant was born

Speech researchers collected speech data from non-binary people to create Q, a cloned voice. This is particularly important given the UN’s findings that the voices of Siri and Alexa encourage gender stereotypes and bias.

His Personal Digital Her assistant, Cortana, is named after a character from the popular video game Halo.
Jen Taylor, the voice actor who played her Cortana in Halo, also voices the automated assistant.

Researchers are experimenting with “improvised chatbots”.
A computer science researcher at the University of Southern California has added impromptu conversations to chatbots to make them more interesting. The SPOLIN project includes more than 65,000 yes and yes dialogue pairs. “Yes-and” is a basic creative improvisation exercise that encourages participants to build on previous ideas.

The researchers fed its SpolinBot data from a popular improv podcast to generate hilarious and silly responses. The researchers presented their progress at the Society for Computer Linguistics conference in July 2020.

Feed from a popular improv podcast

Animals are smarter than chatbots when it comes to context
According to Colin Allen, an expert on artificial intelligence ethics at Indiana University, Chatbots still have a lot to learn. Animal behavior also makes chatbots smarter.

To fully understand a question and provide an accurate answer, a personal digital assistant like Siri must understand context. Allen said people tend to tweak their queries if the chatbot doesn’t understand something. For chatbots to evolve into highly skilled assistants, this needs to change.

Animals are good at inferring context and rely on their senses, such as sight and hearing, to make decisions in the face of uncertainty. Studying this phenomenon could help computer scientists design more adaptive bots.

In 2017, two bots from Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Lab developed their own languages.
Bob and Alice begin to “talk” in a non-human language of their own invention, much to the surprise and confusion of the researchers. This “language,” which linguistics professor Mark Lieberman calls “Facebotlish,” is a bit confusing for humans. The researchers were forced to tweak the model in an attempt to translate and understand the meaning of speech. While this may seem alarming at first, the researchers found the conversation to be essentially meaningless. (At least it doesn’t make sense to us.)

Other computer scientists have observed that chatbots use rules of structure and syntax to create their own language. But does that mean that chatbots create complex language that humans cannot understand? As we have seen, chatbots still have a long way to go to reach a level of intelligence comparable to that of the human brain. Also use language. Facts about chatbots:

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