Friday, August 22, 2008

Artificial Intelligence with PHP

Can PHP respond to users like a human?

By Angela Bradley, About.com

Humans have long been fascinated with Artificial Intelligence. Online artificial intelligence, often called bots, are all measured against the mother of all online intelligence, A.L.I.C.E. Standing for "Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity," A.L.I.C.E is a chat bot developed in the mid 90s that is capable of holding intelligent conversation, and giving relevant answers.

A.L.I.C.E. and variations of her, respond to the language AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) to get instruction about how to "think." There are several implementations of this in languages such as Java, Ruby, Perl, Python, etc, including one in PHP called Program E.

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These PHP interfaces give PHP users a familiar platform from which to jump into AIML, and develop their own brand of AI.

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