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   From: primz@bigpond.com   
      
   Hi,   
      
   I recently went to an art exhibition, and one of the artists had an AI   
   engine projected onto a screen with a keyboard for visitors to type   
   questions in with.   
      
   Curiously, I asked the artist if he had written the engine. He claimed   
   to have, but as far as I know, he has done no AI study, and only   
   started programming python some months ago.   
      
   Naturally, I find it hard to believe he has picked up on natural   
   language processing and the other various skills required to write AI   
   engines in that time. My guess is he has a python AIML interpreter,   
   and he's found a default "brain" somewhere and tweaked it with some of   
   his own stuff in order to pass it off as his own.   
      
   The engine could answer all the usual questions, like "what is the   
   meaning of life" (42), "what is your name", "how old are you" etc etc.   
   It was just a chatterbot, so ELIZA or a deriviative is marked off the   
   list. I am guessing probably an ALICE engine is behind it all. Does   
   anyone know any questions or commands one can issue the bot which   
   might identify it? It required all questions to start with a capital   
   letter, if thats any help.   
      
   Cheers,   
      
   Nick.   
      
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