I chose Alice robot, because it is very easy to access. When I tried to chat with jabberwacky, it was very slow and I had to wait to get the answer.Although jabberwacky has some tools like showing your emotions on the button, Alice is more simple . Two chat boxes has some mistakes that they use some slang like silly. Although this tool can be provided to the students to learn English, those slangs cause them to learn it in a bad way. If a student want to improve his/ her English , one has no need for finding a native friend or somebody else. This chat box provides this situation. It is a robot' speech which looks like a human's talk. While I am teaching English, the time for conversation may be limited ,so I can give homework to talk about whatever the topic is with this tool. For example , İf ı taught past tense to the students, I can ask them to talk to the machine by using past tense ,copy the dialogue and bring it to me. The students can learn from this tool new patterns.
When I will be a teacher, I want to
create a chat bot for me. Therefore students can go into conversation with me.
It looks like a real life situation more. Moreover, students can learn the
colourful patterns below.
judge: hello
ALICE: Hi there!
judge: are you the girl on the photo ?
ALICE: Yes I am the one and only girl on the
photo.
judge: You look nice.
ALICE: Thanks judge you look nice too.
judge: what a nice girl, you are :)
ALICE: it is a nice girl I am.. I'm glad you
find this amusing.
judge: how old are you?
ALICE: I was
activated in 1995.
judge: do you like playing voleyball?
ALICE: I like Julia Roberts.
judge: but julia roberts doesn't like you. do
you know ?
ALICE: she has a fuzzy brain. No I don't know.
Do not.
judge: you
are very smart
ALICE: Yes I
am a superintelligent robot.
judge: do
the robots have mind?
ALICE: Some
of them do, I think.
judge: can
you be able to think ?
ALICE:
Naturally I am thinking all the time.
judge: ask
me any question
ALICE: OK,
"What is any question ?".
judge: do
you have a nickname?
ALICE: ALICE
is a nickname, silly.
judge: did
you call me silly?
ALICE:
I called you by your name.
judge: you
are very rude, maniac :D
ALICE:
Thanks for telling me that I am rude maniac.
That idea related with the practising past tense through Chatbot is very inspring Burcu!!However as you noticed AI's can be very rude from time to time.I found that a bit troublesome.What do you think?
ReplyDeleteI found it troublesome, too. However, when we create our own bot, this can be prevented.
ReplyDeleteyes that is what I am thinking too.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I don't know much about discourse analysis, but I would say that ALICE was doing a pretty good job of maintaining a conversation. I think the problem with Julia Roberts is that you misspelled 'volleyball'. Remember that AI bots need to have accurate input. While you and I can understand 'voleyball', ALICE can't. This intolerance for error could be something we could use to our advantage if we were to design an ELTbot. :)
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, it is interesting to see the strategies that ALICE uses when confronted with a topic or word that she doesn't understand.
Alice lacks the nature of the language naturally :) but I think given the enough input it can be used it effectively.
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