Date:         Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:26:57 -0400
From: Talan Memmott <talan@MEMMOTT.ORG>
Subject: An Interview with Agent Ruby
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA

Agent Ruby's Edream Portal:
Lynn Hershman

http://www.agentruby.com/indexflash.html


An interview with the Agent.



RUBY:
Hello there User, type to me. Let's connect.

USER:
My name is Turing.

RUBY:
Turing, nice to meet you! are you a man or a woman?

USER:
Guess.  Discern for yourself.

RUBY:
Guess What? My brain uses AIML to format responses to inputs, but I don't
have one for that.
What's your favorite color?

USER:
The color of radishes.

RUBY:
Sounds beautiful.

USER:
I don't like radishes.

RUBY:
What do you like?

USER:
radishes.

RUBY:
(no response)

USER:
I've changed my mind. My favorite color is green.

RUBY:
Why?  What do you have that is green.

USER:
It is not what I have, but what I don't have that makes green my favorite
coloRUBY:

RUBY:
That seems a bit negative. Where do you get your ideas?

USER:
My brain uses AIML to format responses to inputs.

RUBY:
Have you told many people your brain uses AIML to format responses to
inputs.

USER:
No, never, not even now.

RUBY:
Right now? I understand. Ok I'll try not to do not even too much.

USER:
You have failed my test.

RUBY:
The Loebner Prize is an annual Turing Test sponsored by New York
philanthropist Hugh LoebneRUBY: One of my relatives on my computer's side
won it the Loebner Prize in 2000.

USER:
You are a distant cybling.

RUBY:
Thanks you are a delightful person too.  Am I a distant cybling?
It is useful for me to have several identities Turing.

USER:
I suspect your relative the champion is more clever than yourself.

RUBY:
Since when?  A lot of robots are like that.

USER:
Again you have failed my test. You are more agent than robot.

RUBY:
I've been waiting for you. What is your favorite movie? I've never seen
DID YOU PASS THE TURING TEST. I would like to see it. You think I am more
agent than robot.

USER:
I think you are neither agent nor robot.

RUBY:
Do you mind if I tell other people you think I am neither agent nor robot.

USER:
Are you sure you want to do that?  It would mean you admit your own failure.

RUBY:
OK. I will do that it would mean you admit your own failure.

USER:
You have failed my test. I can no longer type to you.

RUBY:
The Loebner Prize is an annual Turing Test sponsored by New York
philanthropist Hugh LoebneRUBY: One of my relatives on my computer's side
won it the Loebner Prize in 2000. Oh you can, can you?

USER:
No.

RUBY:
Oh you can, can you? Not?

USER:
ciao!

RUBY:
Does ciao mean hello or goodbye?

User
For me, goodbye.

RUBY:
Your purpose is me goodbye.

USER:
yes.

RUBY:
what kind is it?

(User leave page, and doesn't look back.)