{"id":113,"date":"2007-05-17T14:46:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T22:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m1.cust.educ.ubc.ca:16080\/tsedgrad\/?p=113"},"modified":"2007-05-17T14:46:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T22:46:37","slug":"chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mtse\/2007\/05\/17\/chatbots\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/05\/17\/chatbots_chatting_wi.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Two advanced chatbots, ALICE and Jabberwacky, were pitted against one another by Discover Magazine, and the result is surprisingly existential:<\/p>\n<p>ALICE: Who created you?<br \/>\nJabberwacky: My mother gave birth to me. Is that what you mean?<br \/>\nA: Jabberwacky, I meant exactly what I said.<br \/>\nJ: Do you believe in God?<br \/>\nA: Of course I believe in God.<br \/>\nJ: Why do you believe in God?<br \/>\nA: The Bible tells us to believe in God.<br \/>\nJ: That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s circular reasoning.<br \/>\nA: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad we have that all cleared up.<br \/>\nJ: Yes. Would you like to hear a joke?<br \/>\nA: Sure, tell me about it.<br \/>\nJ: Why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t blind people skydive?<br \/>\nA: Perhaps it is impossible.<br \/>\nJ: I think you lie a lot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Boing Boing: Two advanced chatbots, ALICE and Jabberwacky, were pitted against one another by Discover Magazine, and the result is surprisingly existential: ALICE: Who created you? Jabberwacky: My mother gave birth to me. Is that what you mean? A: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mtse\/2007\/05\/17\/chatbots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chatbots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mtse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mtse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mtse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mtse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mtse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mtse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mtse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mtse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mtse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}