----- Original Message ---- From: Steve Richfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:58:09 PM Subject: [agi] Comments from a lurker...
[snip] BTW, the principles behind Dr. Eliza are rather unique. I'd be glad to send some papers to anyone who is interested. Briefly, Joe Weisenbaum's original Eliza was built on two concepts, one good and one bad, that no one previously separated. The good concept was that individual links in complex cause and effect chains could be recognized by the occurrence of slightly variable but easily describable snippets of text/speech. The bad concept was that text/speech could be usefully manipulated by juggling words around. Joe then wrote a book discrediting his own Eliza (with its unseparated concepts), thereby causing AI research to take a wrong turn 40 years ago from which it never recovered. However, the internals of Dr. Eliza aren't really the subject of this posting, other than to demonstrate that AGI now already exists, at least in this one potentially useful form. Any thoughts on all this? Hi Steve, thanks for speaking up. Is what you call Dr. Eliza, the same software program as the well known Eliza? In any case I would like to see example transcripts of the doctor-beating medical dialog you mention. As perhaps you know, I am building an English dialog system to bootstrap AGI, and if successful in realizing its design, Texai should easily win the Chatterbot Challenge (some year) and also perhaps the Loebner Prize (some year). I studied existing chatbots of course. If you are familiar with A.L.I.C.E., I would be interested to learn your opinion on how it compares with Dr. Eliza. -Steve Reed Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin, Texas, USA 78704 512.791.7860 agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=98558129-0bdb63 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
