Re: The A.I. Project
- Posted by Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> Nov 10, 2002
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On 11 Nov 2002, at 0:29, Rom wrote: > > I have done surfing on > > http://www.alicebot.org/ > > 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. > > 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