Re: The A.I. Project
- Posted by Rom <kjehas at frisurf.no> Nov 10, 2002
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01C28919.722AF200 charset="iso-8859-1" I have done surfing on=20 http://www.alicebot.org/=20 Very amusing to read. Some lines copied below. Rom (from The Anatomy of A.L.I.C.E. by Dr. Richard S. Wallace) A general downturn in artificial intelligence and robotics roughly = coincided with the end of the Cold War, as governments and corporations = reduced the amount of funding available for this technology. The "richly = funded" field of 1976 became more like a Darwinian struggle for = diminishing resources. One positive outcome was the brief heyday of = "robot minimalism," a design philosophy based on low-cost parts, = commodity computers, low-bandwidth sensing, and general simplicity in = design and engineering. It was a moment when Occam's razor could cut = away much of the needless complexity that had accumulated over the = previous decades. Although robot minimalism subsequently fell out of = favor, it became a significant influence on the development of = A.L.I.C.E.=20 We used to say there was no theory behind A.L.I.C.E., no neural = networks, no knowledge representation, no deep search, no genetic = algorithms and no parsing. Then we discovered that there was a theory = circulating in applied A.I., called Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) [CBR?? = reference] that closely resembled the stimulus-response structure of = A.L.I.C.E. The CBR cases correspond to the AIML categories. ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01C28919.722AF200 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><FONT size=3D4> <P><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D3>I have done surfing on = </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D3>http://www.alicebot.org/ = </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D3>Very amusing to read. Some = lines copied=20 below.</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D3>Rom</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </P></FONT><FONT size=3D4> <P><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman"><STRONG>(</STRONG>from <STRONG>The = Anatomy of=20 A.L.I.C.E.</STRONG></FONT><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman"> by Dr. Richard = S.=20 Wallace)</FONT></P></FONT><FONT size=3D4></FONT><FONT face=3D"Times New = Roman"=20 size=3D4> <P align=3Djustify>A general downturn in artificial intelligence and = robotics=20 roughly coincided with the end of the Cold War, as governments and = corporations=20 reduced the amount of funding available for this technology. The "richly = funded"=20 field of 1976 became more like a Darwinian struggle for diminishing = resources.=20 One positive outcome was the brief heyday of "robot minimalism," a = design=20 philosophy based on low-cost parts, commodity computers, low-bandwidth = sensing,=20 and general simplicity in design and engineering. It was a moment when = Occam=92s=20 razor could cut away much of the needless complexity that had = accumulated over=20 the previous decades. Although robot minimalism subsequently fell out of = favor,=20 it became a significant influence on the development of A.L.I.C.E. </P> <P>We used to say there was <I>no</I> theory behind A.L.I.C.E., no = neural=20 networks, no knowledge representation, no deep search, no genetic = algorithms and=20 no parsing. Then we discovered that there was a theory circulating in = applied=20 A.I., called Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) [CBR?? reference] that closely = resembled=20 the stimulus-response structure of A.L.I.C.E. The CBR cases correspond = to the=20 AIML categories.</P></FONT><FONT size=3D2> ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01C28919.722AF200--