A product of Queen Mary, University of London, this looks very interesting! The site describes itself like this.
“Explore how computer science is also about people, solving puzzles, creativity, changing the future and, most of all, having fun.”
The cs4fn magic book looks particularly good.
There is an applet where you can do some simple AI programming for a game of Noughts and Crosses ( Tic-Tac-Toe ).
Another good applet is the What is an Algorithm applet.
A recent challenge amongst chatterboxes: http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/
Here is some info on some of the bots. Could be used as a fun activity to look at AI.
1. Here’s a downloadable chatterbox called Artemis : http://users.auth.gr/~dkaras/
2.Another one called RoboMatic X1 looks really interesting! http://www.infradrive.com/robomatic.php
3. A Web-based chatterbox, Azureon: http://www.personalityforge.com/dynachat.php?BotID=23969&MID=23957
4. Brother Jerome is a highly regarded chatterbox. It is fun but slow. http://www.be9.net/BJ/ . It has an impressive list of features http://www.be9.net/BJ/games.htm
Here is another list of bots: http://www.personalityforge.com/botlist.php
http://www.simonlaven.com/eliza.htm
Eliza is the best known Artificial Intelligence program in the world. It is also one of the oldest. Created in the early 1960’s by MIT scientist Joseph Weizenbaum and named after Eliza Doolittle, its mission was to attempt to replicate the conversation between a psychoanalyst and a patient
Jabberwacky is an artificial intelligence – a chat robot, often known as a ‘chatbot’ or ‘chatterbot’. It aims to simulate natural human chat in an interesting, entertaining and humorous manner.
Jabberwacky is different. It learns. In some ways it models the way humans learn language, facts, context and rules.
20Q is an object, a website, a company, and a phenomenon. It first gained popularity as an online game (20Q.net) where users log onto our website and play against an artificial intelligence foe. Players think of an animal, vegetable, mineral, or other item and the computer guesses what the player is thinking in twenty questions. And the more people play, the more the game “learns.” (20Q.net) gets 50,000,000 impressions a month and played its 10,000,000th game in February 2005!). 20Q is now played around the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Great list of online and downloadable implementations of ELIZA. But nothing there really excited me except maybe A.L.I.C.E.
http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html
The original computer psychoanalyst using an online Web form.
http://staff.aist.go.jp/utsugi-a/Lab/Links.html
A huge list of resources last updated in 2004. Created by Akio Utsugi.
http://kandid.sourceforge.net/
Kandid is a system to evolve graphics. Graphics, in Kandid, is not drawn by hand. Instead new forms can be found using genetic algorithms. To achieve this aim Kandid simulates evolution using sexual reproduction and populations. But there is no fitness function in side the program. Only the user decide which images are interesting.
