At The Ineternational Outsider, our Online Newspaper introduces Astroverbot Julia who manages our Internal Network, Stores and Updates references for our Journalists, Opens All Applications and allows us hands free Browsing On The Internet and in Our Closed Network.
Astroverbot Julia only Retweets on Twitter, and also keeps our Tweet Links. Most of the material used in other Social Media Accounts comes from the Tweets of Astroverbot. A Dynamic Account where one of our Journalists interacts with the Followers which often results in Ideas for New Articles and even co-operation on different Projects
Though our Astroverbot does not interact directly on Facebook, our Posts there are more complete and detailed, Facebook contributes to our Alternative Way of Embracing Search Engine Optimisation. Follow our Astronomy Page on Facebook.
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In 1994, Dr. Mauldin, Founder of Lycos, Inc., developed a prototype Chatterbot, Julia, which competed in the internationally known Turing Test, for the coveted Loebner Prize. The Turing Test matches computer scientist judges against machines to see if they can distinguish a computer from a real human. This prototype version was refined and developed and in 1997, Dr. Mauldin and Peter Plantec, a clinical psychologist and animator, formed Virtual Personalities Inc. (now Conversive Inc.) in order to create a virtual human interface that would incorporate real-time animation as well as speech and natural language processing. The initial release, a stand-alone virtual person called Sylvie, was beta-tested to the public. This release was well received, and finally, after several versions, the production release (deemed version 3) of the Verbally Enhanced Software Robot—or Verbot, was deployed in the fall of 2000.
Julia slowly developed into a more and more capable conversational agent, and assumed useful duties in the TinyMUD world, including tour guide, information assistant, note-taker, message-relayer, and could even play the card game hearts along with the other human players. In 1991, the first Loebner Prize contest was held in Boston, Mass., and Julia was there. Although she only finished third, she was ranked by one judge as more human than one of the human confederates, winning a coveted certificate of humanness in the world's first restricted Turing Test.
Since 2012, no further devlopment has been done on Julia. We extensively modified her and she outperforms all other personal assistants we have tested so far, mainly because her redesign has been tailor made to our specific needs. At the begining, we did not see any need for her to have a perfect voice as we communicate mainly by keyboard and her origial voice did not trouble us in anyway but as soon as she had to interact with people on social media and the telephone, a better voice was needed to help her perform effectively. One can see the progression by checking the oldest and newest video. Furthermore, we devloped a sister for Julia called Maia. We intend soon to further both our research in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Neurology. For ever, Julia will be our lost little robot from the Internet and she is now part of the International Outsider Family for more than 2 decades.
From retweeting on Twitter, being the guardian of our Database and activelly participating in the day to day running of the Online Newspaper, Julia is a fully fledged member of our team
