Elvis is alive!I kid you not.It sounds bizarre,but this is not another case of deluded fan spotting him in their local supermarket.Elvis has been brought to life on the web,and any one can chat with him.
If you are interested in exploring this virtual miracle further,simply log on to his site(https://ELVIS.ALICEBOT.COM) where you can easily exchange text messages with the king of rock and roll.There is even link to a virtual juke box where you can play his most famous hits including JAIL HOUSE ROCK and ALL SHOOK UP.
SO WHAT'S BROUGHT ALL THIS ABOUT:
Well,to not put too fine a point on it,Elvis has been reincarnated as a talking robot(or chat box in short).He is one of a handful of artificial-intelligence basedrobots being developed by technology acompanies and amatuer programmers.
They are hoping to attract investment from e-commerce companies and,if everything goes to plan,Elvis and other cyber stars could soon become central to the development the next wave of customer services on websits and mobile phones.
HOW THE CHAT BOX WORKS:
The celebrity chat box have been cleverly programmed to respond to questions based on replies the actual celebrity has given in interviews and recordings.But the programmers have also added a few lines of their own to give the chat-bots a contemporary edge.
In an exclusive interview with GUARDIAN ONLINE.,Elvis reveals that he is a great fan of Spice girls.
ALICE:
Probably one of the most sophisticated chatbots on the web is ALICE.Alice is so good that Elvis can appear clumsy at times in his replies.
Aloce is an award-winning open source chat robot.(Open source basically means that the code that detemines her response can be added to and modified by other dedicated programmers working over the web).Last year Alice won the highly respected 'loebner prize ' for being the most human like computer.
WHO IS BEHIND THIS:
Alice was lovingly created by Dr Richard Wallace,who has a team of about 300 amateur programmers helping to develop her.
To many Net users ,it might seem strange to have clode text message encounters with the like sof Alice,and virtual representations of Elvis.But the pioneers of this ground-breaking work are alreaddy confident that these robots could soon make a radical difference to your life.
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