Albert One is an
AI chatterbot
A chatbot or chatterbot is a software application used to conduct an on-line chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent. Designed to convincingly simulate the way a human would beha ...
bot created by
Robby Garner
Robby Garner (born 1963) is an American natural language programmer and software developer. He won the 1998 and 1999 Loebner Prize contests with the program called Albert One. He is listed in the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records as having writ ...
and designed to mimic the way
humans
Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, ...
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 awards prizes to the computer programs considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The prize is reported as defunct since 2020. The format of the competition was tha ...
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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