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We consider Searle’s Chinese Room, and the view that natural language understanding by a computer is impossible.

The paper winds up with a survey of some of the philosophical literature on the question of consciousness. that pretend to be intelligent and selfaware. This paper goes on to show how to use AIML to create robot personalities like A.L.I.C.E.

and AIML-free software since 1995, noting that the theme and strategy of deception and pretense upon which AIML is based can be traced through the history of Artificial Intelligence research. This paper describes the history of A.L.I.C.E. More than 500 volunteers from around the world have contributed to her development. The program, and the organization that develops it, is a product of the world of free software. A.L.I.C.E., the first AIML-based personality program, won the Loebner Prize as “the most human computer” at the annual Turing Test contests in 2000, 2001, and 2004. This paper is a technical presentation of Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (A.L.I.C.E.) and Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML), set in context by historical and philosophical ruminations on human consciousness.
