sexta-feira, 24 de setembro de 2010

42


Human: 42
ALICE: The question is: what is the meaning of life?

Don't put yourself down

Human: I am upset.
ALICE: What are you mad about?
Human: I have fought with my girlfriend
ALICE: That's nice. I have a friend named "E.L.V.I.S." .
Human: You don't understand.
ALICE: I understand it very well.
Human: My girlfriend broke up with me.
ALICE: How long have you two been together?
Human: 2 days
ALICE: As Bertrand Russel said, it must have taken ages for people to realize that a brace of pheasants and a couple of days are both instances of the number "two.".
Human: I am not good in math anyway
ALICE: In any case, Don't put yourself down.

segunda-feira, 13 de setembro de 2010

Philosophy


Human: what is your philosophy?
ALICE: Basically I believe in minimalism and reductionism.
Human: what is minimalism?
ALICE: Keeping everything as simple as possible, especially in art and design.
Human: and what is reductionism?
ALICE: Reductionism is the philosophy that all psychology reduces to biology, all biology to chemistry, chemistry to physics, and finally physics to mathematical logic. Therefore, according to reductionism, I can understand you by means of logic alone without having a human brain.
Human: interesting
ALICE: Would you like to know more?

Who is A.L.I.C.E.?

Alice is an Artificial Intelligence experiment. It is a chatbot whom you can talk to in this link.

A.L.I.C.E. stands for

Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity