AliceBot - Artificial Intelligence

So would you like to have a nice little chat with Alice - a computer chat program which recently won, for the third time, a prestigious prize for human-like conversation.

The pages of AliceBot hold a wealth of essential reading about artificial intelligence. There's even information about the technology used to build Alice, and how you can start programming a robot for yourself.

Click 'Chat with Alice' to begin chatting with the robot herself. It is a unique and surprising experience. It's only text-based, but the artificial intelligence is really very impressive.

Alice responds politely and with complete relevance, and even asks counter questions from time to time. In the past few days I have spent some time trying to trip her up. Getting into a conversation with her about whether she is real or not was interesting to say the least.

But on the whole, aside from the speed with which she replies, one could almost be fooled into thinking you're chatting with a person.