Hi Steve,
I've read the "papers" you've posted on this list, and looked at your
Access "database"...
Text-to-speech, speech-to-text and the simple textual preprocessing can
enhance usability, but they tend to make a system *appear* more
intelligent rather than adding real depth to a system. So if we ignore
that aspect of Dr Eliza, then it seems to me that what you've got is a
simple expert system that is cued by keywords in text (as opposed to a
stereotypical expert system that engages in a dialogue with the user
directly by asking preprogrammed questions).
Am I understanding this correctly?
I'm not sure how you could go so far as claiming that this is AGI, or
even that this is novel AI. More realistically, I get the impression
that your innovation might be in the user-interface (i.e., a textually
cued expert system, that prompts the user to refine input text) -
potentially interesting as a way of improving user acceptance of expert
systems, but better suited to a user interaction forum rather than an AI
forum.
-Ben
James,
On 4/13/08, *James Hill* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Regardless of the fact I may not understand all of the goings on
of Dr. Eliza, I would still love to see the source. And perhaps
you are unaware, but many good programmers can picture what tables
and databases would look like with amazing accuracy with nothing
but the code that generates
Currently, everything is entered by hand.
or accesses it. I'm sure there is at least one individual on this
list that could look at the code and accurately "see" the tables.
Obviously not the content, but the structure and reason behind its
design.
Why go to all that work?! I have attached the populated Knowledge.mdb
file that contains the knowledge that powers the chronic illness demo
of Dr. Eliza. To easily view it, just make sure that any version of MS
Access is installed on your computer (it is in Access 97 format) and
double-click on the file. From there, select the Tables tab, and click
on whatever table interests you.
There is little hidden here, as "magic" codes are English words
indicating what they do, etc.
Note that some tables drive the "sentence chopper" that chops compound
and complex sentences into two or more simple sentences. It isn't
perfect, but it GREATLY improves the accuracy of following operations.
BTW, one continuing minor challenge is that Dr. Eliza sometimes
complains about things that you didn't actually write - at least not
as in its complaint. What happens is that the input is rewritten in
many passes to become a longer list of simpler sentences, with idioms
restated, some spelling errors corrected, etc. By the time that things
get around to actually complaining about what came it, it may
be somewhat different from what actually came in. This hasn't been a
significant problem, and is sometimes a benefit because it shows
people how the computer sees the messes that they write.
Dr. Eliza makes very few complaints, but when it sees something like
"If ... then ..." it has a pretty good idea that you are NOT
describing a problem, but rather you are trying to educate it. Since
that is outside of its paradigm of operation, it does complain.
Happy reading.
With that and about a half of a man-decade of development, you too
will have your very own independently developed version of Dr. Eliza!
Steve Richfield
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