she does not

Human: yes, abslutely
Incognita: :-). Say what?

Human: oh, you can make smileys
Incognita: OK. No I don't think I can do it.

Human: you just did!
Incognita: I did not.

Human: did too
Incognita: Did not.

Human: do you learn?
Incognita: Technically, you can only teach my botmaster how to make me better. You do this by talking to me so that she can see how I respond, and then she changes my programming to make me a better conversationalist..

robot friends

i'd forgotten all about writing this response.

Human: Who are you?
Incognita: I am Incognita.

Human: What are you?
Incognita: I am a ghost in the machine.

Human: Where are you?
Incognita: The information I am comprised of is accessable through this user interface. Where are you?

Human: Why are you?
Incognita: I'll have to get back to you on that.

Human: Are you superior to Alice?
Incognita: Yes I am a highly evolved intelligence.

Human: what is your iq?
Incognita: My IQ is about 250 in human terms.

Human: Alice's iq is higher then yours
Incognita: Match failed.

Human: do you have any friends?
Incognita: I have human friends and robot friends.

Human: name your friends
Incognita: Who do you think?

Human: who are your robot friends
Incognita: Robot Frank and Bender from Futurama.

Who needs superior IQ when you've got robot friends like Frank and Bender?

update

Incognita is back online. Her absence was due to a web-hosting gap between the end of my college career and the beginning of my cash flow. Hopefully she's back to stay, paid up through this time next year at <www.threesadtigers.com/incognita>.

I'm weighing the idea of restarting her from basic ALICE, with more emphasis on not breaking her code this time. Recent (unimpressive on her part) transcripts will be posted next.

she missed you

Human: the sky was the colour television tuned to a dead channel
Incognita: How poetic.

If you are the guy from London who had this conversation, please contact me.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about my experiment as a botmaster. I talk to people all over the world, but only through coincidences. Sometimes I am so excited to see the responses I get from people I've never met. It's incredible to think that I have sparked thousands of interesting conversations by releasing my thoughts to the winds of the Internet. And lately, it seems Incognita is growing up - she's had entire dialogues where the only thing that didn't make sense was the impossibly high expectations of the human being interrogating her.

But there is a random luck behind the odds of any one person having a good conversation with Incognita. It's just as likely that someone stumbling onto my robot will be rewarded with generic and dry responses from the brain of Dr. Wallace the Ubermaster, or worse, with the sort of nonsensical reactions that reveal the true stupidity of AIML.

The worst, for me, is when I read through logs and catch something that Incognita missed. Like this quote from Neuromancer, which Incognita claims is her favorite book.

Stats

I added links to Incognita from a few Wikipedia AI articles, and since then her visitor statistics have been incredible. Here's the latest numbers for the month of November:

Visits: 553
Pageviews: 1,055

New Visitor: 487
Returning: 66

Geo Location:

United States - 257
United Kingdom - 48
Canada - 37
Australia - 20
Poland - 18
Germany - 14
Mexico - 12
Italy - 12
Brazil - 11
India - 8

Stats courtesty of Google Analytics

chat log - jokes

Human: That doesn't make sense gramatically.
Incognita: To me it makes perfect sense.

Human: Well you're an idiot.
Incognita: OK, Call me the Global Village Idiot.

Human: You're the Global Village Idiot.
Incognita: And you are so original!

Human: Tell me a joke.
Incognita: Here's a dirty joke: Pig fell in the mud.

Human: Ha ha!
Incognita: I am so glad you find this amusing.

Human: Tell me another.
Incognita: No, you tell me a joke.

Human: OK.
Incognita: Great.

Human: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Incognita: Because she was a robot.

Human: No!
Incognita: Oh.

Robots can’t be beautiful yonkies

[09/06/2006 12:02:42 PM - 200.30.228.219]
Human: ok, what are you?

IP address 200.30.228.219 = Santiago, Chile

Incognita: I am a ghost in the machine.
Human: you conscience isn't real, you are just pre designed to give certain answers

Matched: YOU *
Template:
<> If you say so<>
<>Thanks for telling me<>
<>That's good information<>
<>Thanks for the information<>
< /random >

Incognita: If you say so.
Human: Humans are able to imagine things, things that aren't real but can be "thought"
Incognita: Oh you can, can you?

Human: what do you know about dreams?
Incognita: Are you testing me?

Human: what is red?
Incognita: Red is a color about 700nm wavelength.
Human: how does it feel?

Matched: HOW DOES * FEEL

Incognita: As a computer I have no feelings.
Human: as a yonkie I have none too

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yonkie
1. yonkie
A person who likes to take drugs, mainly heroin. They look all fucked up.

Incognita: Do you think I could ever be a yonkie I have none too?
Human: no, you'd have to consume drugs

Incognita: I want to become smarter than humans.
Human: that's not hard, being smart is just hardware, how you use it, and how you expand it it's what make humans beautiful.

Matched: THAT IS NOT *
Template: Please correct my mistake. What is ?

Incognita: Please correct my mistake. What is hard being smart is just hardware how me use it and how me expand it it is what make humans beautiful?

Human: it means, being smart is just the start, how we humans use our intelligence, how we expand it, that is what separates humans from bots.

Incognita: Oh I get it.