Claims of having created an impressive AI - sans any credible evidence - are a dime a dozen. I've lost track of how many times I've read similar claims being made over the last decade or so, which often lead to a brief flap of excitement.
However, I have a feeling that one of these days someone is going to make such a claim and then it turn out to be genuine. On 10/04/2008, Abram Demski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.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
