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<h2 id="in-popular-culture">In popular culture</h2> <p><a href="/facts/Spike_Jonze/czRLn3Je">Spike Jonze</a> has cited ALICE as the inspiration for his academy award-winning film <a href="/facts/Her_(2013_film)/LS0yVR2H">Her</a>, in which a human falls in love with a chatbot. In a New Yorker article titled “<i>Can Humans Fall in Love with Bots?</i>” Jonze said “that the idea originated from a program he tried about a decade ago called the ALICE bot, which engages in friendly conversation.”<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> The LATimes reported:</p><blockquote><p>Though the film’s premise evokes comparisons to Siri, Jonze said he actually had the idea well before the Apple digital assistant came along, after using a program called Alicebot about ten years ago. As geek nostalgists will recall, that intriguing if at times crude software (it flunked the industry-standard Turing Test) would attempt to engage users in everyday chatter based on a database of prior conversations. Jonze liked it, and decided to apply a film genre to it. “I thought about that idea, and what if you had a real relationship with it?” Jonze told reporters. “And I used that as a way to write a relationship movie and a love story.”<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></p></blockquote> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Kuki_(chatbot)/AKk7AWlY">Kuki (chatbot)</a></li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <ul><li>Henderson, Harry (2007). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vKmIiICDIwgC"><i>Artificial intelligence: mirrors for the mind</i></a>. New York: <a href="/facts/Infobase_Publishing/EqPtkn6t">Infobase Publishing</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1604130591. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/166421367">166421367</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Clive_Thompson_(journalist)/t1QKPUeh">Thompson, Clive</a> (July 7, 2002). <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/07WALLACE.html">"Approximating Life"</a>. Magazine. <i><a href="/facts/The_New_York_Times/T9marWVX">The New York Times</a></i>. Retrieved August 30, 2013. <i>Note: Online the article appears as four pages, which can be individually accessed by taking the article link and adding "?pagewanted=1" after it for the first page, or =2, =3 or =4 for each of the other pages available online.</i></li> <li>Wallace, Richard S. (2009). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161010063302/http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-6710-5/page/1">"The Anatomy of A.L.I.C.E."</a>. In <a href="/facts/Robert_Epstein/7VS42Dlf">Epstein, Robert</a>; Roberts, Gary; Beber, Grace (eds.). <i>Parsing the Turing test</i>. London: <a href="/facts/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media/nAesf6nT">Springer Science+Business Media</a>. pp. 181–210. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-6710-5_13">10.1007/978-1-4020-6710-5_13</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-4020-6710-5. Archived from <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-6710-5/page/1">the original</a> on 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2017-08-28.</li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Clive_Thompson_(journalist)/t1QKPUeh">Thompson, Clive</a> (May 3, 2007). <a href="https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/i-chat-therefore-i-am">"I Chat, Therefore I Am..."</a> <i>Discovery</i> (The Brain: An Owner's Manual). Retrieved 2022-06-11. Conversation between two robots drifts into flirtation and philosophy. (subtitle)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Alexander_Fiske-Harrison/UX6Jf7tU">Fiske-Harrison, Alexander</a> (June 9, 2000). <a href="https://archive.today/20130114032352/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article770337.ece">"A.L.I.C.E.'s springs - Do computers really converse?"</a>. The Times Literary Supplement. Archived from <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article770337.ece">the original</a> on 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2022-06-11.</li> <li>David Pescovitz (March 18, 1999). <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/18/technology/sons-and-daughters-of-hal-go-on-line.html">"Sons and Daughters of HAL Go on Line"</a>. <i><a href="/facts/The_New_York_Times/T9marWVX">The New York Times</a></i>. Retrieved 2022-06-11.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikinews has related news: <ul><li> Computer professionals celebrate 10th birthday of A.L.I.C.E. </li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171230095936/http://www.alicebot.org/history/technology.html">"Alicebot Technology History"</a>. <i>alicebot.org</i>. Archived from <a href="http://www.alicebot.org/history/technology.html">the original</a> on 2017-12-30. Retrieved 2022-06-11.</li> <li><a href="https://www.ilmarefilm.org/archive/weizenbaum_archiv_E.html">"Weizenbaum. Rebel at Work"</a>. <i>Documentary</i>. Il Mare Film. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110127185414/http://www.ilmarefilm.org/W_E_1.htm">Archived</a> from the original on 2011-01-27. Retrieved 2022-06-11.</li> <li>Roblimo (July 26, 2002). <a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/02/07/26/0332225/alicebot-creator-dr-richard-wallace-expounds">"Alicebot Creator Dr. Richard Wallace Expounds"</a>. <i>Interview</i>. Slashdot. Retrieved 2022-06-11.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Thompson 2002, pg. 3 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Thompson 2002, pg. 3 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Henderson 2007; pg. 126 <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Thompson 2002, p. 2 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Wallace 2009, pg. 181 <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Henderson 2007, pg. 127 <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Can Humans Fall in Love with Bots?". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2015-12-08. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181106205110/https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-humans-fall-in-love-with-bots" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20181106205110/https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-humans-fall-in-love-with-bots</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Zeitchik, Steven (2013-10-13). "NYFF 2013: With voice-centric 'Her,' Spike Jonze makes a statement". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Archived from the original on 2015-12-20. Retrieved 2015-12-08. <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-spike-jonze-her-joaquin-phoenix-20131013-story.html" target="_blank">https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-spike-jonze-her-joaquin-phoenix-20131013-story.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>