Also referred to as Alicebot, the name stands for Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity. It came to life in November 1995 — 30 years ago. Of course, alive is a poor term to use since Alice was only a basic natural language chatbot unable to pass the Turing test. The bot applied what called heuristic pattern matching to read and respond to human input. In layman terms, the bot searches through known data patterns to efficiently find a match for queries, and, in this case, to deliver su
