Re: The A.I. Project
On 11 Nov 2002, at 0:29, Rom wrote:
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> I have done surfing on
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> http://www.alicebot.org/
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> Very amusing to read. Some lines copied below.
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> Rom
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> (from The Anatomy of A.L.I.C.E. by Dr. Richard S. Wallace)
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> 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.
>
> 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.
Also referred to as scripts. In humans, we call that "real life experience". You
know when you eat in a resturant, you are eating the food you ordered. The
computer never went to a resturant, so you haveto spell out that info
explicitly in some form, even if it's explicit in an indirect way over several
"sentences" or "paragraphs". Many Ai projects have 100,000's people-hours
in programming things like that. Many others, like Cyc, have million of hours
(over 10 yrs) in detailing the items like food(resturant(etc(etc))). I
downloaded
and spent months studying Cyc source data tables.
Kat
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