Albert One is an
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
chatbot
A chatbot (originally chatterbot) is a software application or web interface designed to have textual or spoken conversations. Modern chatbots are typically online and use generative artificial intelligence systems that are capable of main ...
created by
Robby Garner and designed to mimic the way
humans
Humans (''Homo sapiens'') or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus ''Homo''. They are Hominidae, great apes characterized by their Prehistory of nakedness and clothing ...
make conversations using a multi-faceted approach in
natural language programming
Natural language programming (NLP) is an ontology-assisted way of programming in terms of natural language sentences, e.g. English. A structured document with Content, sections and subsections for explanations of sentences forms a NLP documen ...
.
History
In both 1998 and 1999, Albert One won the
Loebner Prize
The Loebner Prize was an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awarded prizes to the computer programs considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition was that of a standard Turing test. In each round ...
Contest, a competition between chatterbots.
[Søren Gjellerup Christianse]
"Techniques applied to pass the Turing Test"
''Master's Thesis''
Some parts of Albert were deployed on the internet beginning in 1995, to gather information about what kinds of things people would say to a chatterbot.
[L. Caputo, R. Garner, P. Nathan]
"FRED, Milton and Barry: the evolution of intelligent agents for the Web"
Advances in intelligent systems, 1997.
''portal.acm.org'' Another element of Albert One involved the building of a large database of human statements, and associated replies. This portion of the project was tested at the 1994-1997 Loebner Prize contests.
Albert was the first of Robby Garner's multifaceted bots.
[R. Garne]
"Multifaceted Conversational Systems"
, Colloquium on Conversational Systems, University of Surrey, 2005. ''Robitron.com'' The Albert One system was composed of several subsystems. Among those were a version of Eliza, the therapist, Elivs, another Eliza-like bot, and several other helper applications working together in a hierarchical arrangement. As a continuation of the stimulus-response library, various other database queries and assertions were tested to arrive at each of Albert's responses. Robby went on to develop networked examples of this kind of hierarchical "glue" at
The Turing Hub.
References
External links
Loebner Prize Contest home page
Chatbots
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