Chip Vivant

I was in Philly this weekend giving an informal talk entitled Your Chatbot: Moonshot or Low-Hanging Fruit. It was an honor to meet the amazing people there, especially Dr. Richard Wallace, creator of A.L.I.C.E and AIML. (Although Chip doesn’t use …

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Here’s a new website I’ve created to help you make informed decisions and avoid decisions based on emotion or flip-a-coin-type methods: Decision Help Now! Website It’s the living version and testament to a booklet my late father published thirty years …

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empathynow.com has been completely rewritten and improved. From the website: Chip can enrich your life in ways other techniques can’t. You can talk to Chip and he’ll respond to you with something loving and caring. Chip can help you through …

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Here’s a link to the page containing the interview I did for To The Best of Our Knowledge. The content turned out to be the same as my Wisconsin interview, but is available nationally: http://ttbook.org/book/alan-turing

Here’s a link to an interview I did for Wisconsin Public Radio. A longer-format version is going to be broadcast nationally sometime in mid-August: http://wilife.tumblr.com/post/26351484037/turing-test-saturday-june-23rd-marks-the-100th

I was interviewed for this article: Alan Turing’s legacy: how close are we to ‘thinking’ machines? Here’s the full text of the email interview I submitted for this article: How long did you spend on Chip Vivant? With the exception …

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This was reprinted verbatim from my email interview and also includes a link to a PDF, so I won’t reproduce it here: Mohan Embar Interview – 2012 Loebner Prize Winner with Chip Vivant

Here’s a launch of a very minimalist website: http://www.empathynow.com/ empathynow.com marks the start of my personal mission to use my abilities to provide a certain class of people empathy that they can’t otherwise get from normal, human interaction. I intend …

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As long as I’ve got you here, why not shamelessly peddle a few products I’ve written?: PandaTunes – PandaTunes lets you control Pandora® with iTunes®. Remote control Pandora stations using Apple’s free iTunes remote for iOS devices like the iPad, …

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Here’s a nice article written by Tracey Logan, one of the Loebner Prize Competition 2012 judges who took a liking to Chip. Chip and I are mentioned quite a bit: Is it Possible to Chat to a Computer? In fairness …

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