I'd be interested in looking at a paper. However, I'll be honest: your claim of AGI sounds over-inflated, mainly because it sounds like your algorithm is text-specific and wouldn't help with things like vision, robot control, etc. Nonetheless, a good 'chatbot' is still something of interest (I hope that term isn't taken as derogatory).
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Stephen Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: Steve Richfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: agi@v2.listbox.com > 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 | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
