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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Going down with Alice

Alice is much the best chat-bot on the Web (and IRC), and has twice won the Loebner Prize (a Turing test). But who is behind it? The New York Times reports on the troubled Richard Wallace. Alice featured on the site for Spielberg's AI but you can download your own Alicebot here. (The code is free under the GNU GPL.)

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