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April 4, 2006

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE
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1.  SCR Feature: Art and the Conscious Brain, Martin Skov
2.  Ramachandran interview
3.  Is language changing your personality?
4.  Greater control in Tourette's
5.  Inhibiting the executive brain
6.  Thalamic lesions and consciousness
7.  Right hemisphere lesions and attention
8.  Self-space in the brain
9.  Evolution and autism
10. Knowing where your limbs are
11. Aggression gene and impulse control
12. Meeting of minds -- social neuroscience
13. Journal: Call for papers -- The Visible Curriculum
14. Journal: Consciousness & Cognition
15. Journal: New issue: Journal of Consciousness Studies

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1. SCR Feature: Art and the Conscious Brain
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What makes us see something as beautiful, as ugly or as netral? Here,
Martin Skov reviews Robert Solso's "The Psychology of Art and the
Evolution of the Conscious Brain". To understand the nature of art you
also have to understand the cognitive processes responsible for
turning the perceptual properties of any art object into a mental
representation.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=282
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2. Ramachandran interview
     Sashi Kumar
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Sashi Kumar has a conversation with Professor V.S. Ramachandran,
world-renowned explorer of the human brain, on neuroscience,
philosophy, consciousness and beyond.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=279
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3. Is language changing your personality?
     Ramírez-Esparza et al.
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Can language alter your personality? In this study by Ramírez-Esparza
et al. results suggest that switching between language in Spanish and
English bilinguals also changes personality traits.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=278
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4. Greater control in Tourette's
     Jackson et al.
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New evidence suggests that young people with Tourette's syndrome
actually exhibit a greater level of cognitive control over their
movements than their non-affected peers do.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=277
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5. Inhibiting the executive brain
     Chambers et al.
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A new study using Transcranial magnetic stimulation now identifies
sub-components in executive functioning and their neural substrates.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=276
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6. Thalamic lesions and consciousness
     Edelstyn, Hunter & Ellis
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What happens following injury to the thalamus? In this case study
Edelstyn, Hunter & Ellis demonstrate a patient with dorsolateral
thalamic damage with specific deficits in conscious processing.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=275
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7. Right hemisphere lesions and attention
     Habekost & Rostrup
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What is the nature of attention deficits following right side lesions?
A common syndrome is the unilateral neglect phenomenon. However, even
if patients do not meet the criteria for such a disorder, right
hemispheric lesions produce significant attentional changes. In this
article, Habekost and Rostrup analyze this effect using a recently
re-published theory of visual attention.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=274
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8. Self-space in the brain
     Graziano & Cooke
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One building block of our sense of self is thought to be a body
experience -- a physical boundary that separates oneself from the
environment. In a study published in Neuropsychologia Graziano & Cooke
focus on two specific parts of the brain called the ventral
intraparietal area and an area in the precentral gyrus. These areas,
they suggest is relevant for "the construction of a margin of safety
around the body and the selection and coordination of defensive
behavior".

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=273
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9. Evolution and autism
     Blackwell
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In an article to be published in a forthcoming issue of Journal of
Evolutionary Biology, Dr Christopher Badcock and Professor Bernard
Crespi explore the 'imprinted brain hypothesis' to explain the cause
and effect of autism and autistic syndromes such as Asperger's
syndrome, highlighted by the book 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-Time,' which involves selective disruption of social
behaviour that makes individuals more self-focussed whilst enhancing
skills related to mechanistic cognition.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=272
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10. Knowing where your limbs are
      ScienceDirect
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A new experiment has shed more light on the multi-decade debate about
how the brain knows where limbs are without looking at them.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=271
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11. Aggression gene and impulse control
      ScienceDaily / NIH
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A version of a gene previously linked to impulsive violence appears to
weaken brain circuits that regulate impulses, emotional memory and
thinking in humans, researchers at the National Institutes of Health's
(NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have found. Brain
scans revealed that people with this version -- especially males --
tended to have relatively smaller emotion-related brain structures, a
hyperactive alarm center and under-active impulse control circuitry.
The study identifies neural mechanisms by which this gene likely
contributes to risk for violent and impulsive behavior through effects
on the developing brain.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=270
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12. Meeting of minds -- social neuroscience
      Amodio & Frith
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The neural mechanisms in social cognition are yet to be understood. In
this article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience David Amodio and Chris
Frith propose a model of medial frontal cortical function in social
cognition.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=268
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13. Journal: Call for papers -- The Visible Curriculum
      Visual Studies
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There is now a call for submissions in the journal Visual Studies on a
special issue called "The Visible Curriculum".

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=269
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14. Journal: Consciousness & Cognition
      ScienceDirect
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A new issue from Consciousness & Cognition is out. Articles include on
the use of phenomenology in experiments, task-unrelated images and
thoughts, and mindreading.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=267
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15. Journal: New issue: Journal of Consciousness Studies
      Keith Sutherland
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A new issue of JCS is out; a special issue on epiphenomenalism. Other
articles include book reviews and a conference report.

http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=266
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Hi pals... how are you doing????

   i need help.....  actually i want to do a semester project on Artificial
intelligence.... i am a bachelors student.... and dont know what to do..... i
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Please take a look at the 2006 Chatterbox Challenge:

http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/

Converse with the Bots & vote for the 3 best !!

Many thanks.

Dear Ahsan;

As my pattern recognition course project, I made the
"automatic autorship attribution" project and I got a
lot pleasure from it.

Assume that you have a number of writers, e.g.
Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Chekov, etc. and their available
writings.

Your mission is to find the writer of a piece of text,
whose writer is unknown.

You can apply naive Bayes algorithm or you can use lzw
compression for this.

"Automatic Text Categorization" for libraries is also
a similar and interesting project topic.

Another project topic would be an optimization
problem, for example trying to solve the Travelling
Salesman Problem. One possible way is to learn about
"genetic algorithms".

You can also build a "theorem prover" using the
resolution algorithm, or you can write a program which
tries to solve the instances of the popular game
"Sokoban".

Regards,
Yilmaz Arslanoglu
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Hellow !
   Could you please forward for me  the reply you get, because I was just
thinking similar idea, I am also bachelor student in computer science.
   Thanks
   Mrtag


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Sorry i can't tell you what you need! But i'm quite interested on the
project you're working. I'd like to know what kind of technique are
you implementing. Do you want to implement pattern recognition to
support diagnosis??

Hi, i recommend you a project involving artificial neural networks.
You could build a network to diagnose some specific disease given a
yes/no questionnarie (e.g. Diabetes)

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (new date): 12 May
2006 --

               IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2006
                     Murcia, Spain, 5 to 8 October 2006
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* Conference background and goals
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(ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in other selected Journals.

* Types of submissions
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* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but
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Silicon Valley based – Neural Systems Corporation (NSC) has
developed a technology called trainable digital logic (TDL), which
performs many of the functions performed by artificial neural
networks.  TDL circuitry typically is significantly simpler and
orders of magnitude faster than the equivalent neural network.
General purpose TDL pattern recognizers can be constructed using
FPGAs or as part of a chip that performs additional functions.
Development funding was provided by the Advanced Technology Program
of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Almost all conventional neural networks are implemented on a digital
computer where the computer input is a digital word (or words) and
the output is binary (or a binary word).  Thus, the computer
implements what is generally known as a `switching function'.  It is
known that all switching functions can be implemented with binary
logic. TDL, which uses binary logic, is trained to implement the
complicated switching functions that are equivalent to those
generated by a neural network computer. During training NSC
algorithms specify the logic and architecture in a compact form.
Additional FPGA specific algorithms can be used to implement the
logic.

Conventional neural network algorithms implement large sets of
interconnected neuron analogs.  Each analog requires much
arithmetic, and solutions of non-linear functions. The result is
complexity and reduced speed.  The TDL, in contrast, uses no
arithmetic and no non-linear functions. Typically, it is orders of
magnitude faster and significantly less complex.  For non-neural
network-like applications FPGA based TDL can be used in a similar
manner to implement a complex switching function (or switching
functions) by training in real time on sets of binary words.  Using
this approach, the TDL pattern recognizer hardware is capable of
making millions of decisions a second.

NSC is interested in aiding in the development of products that may
contain TDL.  For contact information and additional details about
the technology visit the NSC Web site at:

http://www.neuralsyscorp.com

Neural Systems Corporation (NSC) has developed a technology
called trainable digital logic (TDL), which performs many of the
functions performed by artificial neural networks.  TDL circuitry
typically is significantly simpler and orders of magnitude faster
than the equivalent neural network.  General purpose TDL pattern
recognizers can be constructed using FPGAs or as part of a chip that
performs additional functions. Development funding was provided by
the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology.

	 Almost all conventional neural networks are implemented on a
digital computer where the computer input is a digital word (or
words) and the output is binary (or a binary word).  Thus, the
computer implements what is generally known as a `switching
function'.  It is known that all switching functions can be
implemented with binary logic. TDL, which uses binary logic, is
trained to implement the complicated switching functions that are
equivalent to those generated by a neural network computer. During
training NSC algorithms specify the logic and architecture in a
compact form.  Additional FPGA specific algorithms can be used to
implement the logic.

	 Conventional neural network algorithms implement large sets
of interconnected neuron analogs.  Each analog requires much
arithmetic, and solutions of non-linear functions. The result is
complexity and reduced speed.  The TDL, in contrast, uses no
arithmetic and no non-linear functions. Typically, it is orders of
magnitude faster and significantly less complex.  For non-neural
network-like applications FPGA based TDL can be used in a similar
manner to implement a complex switching function (or switching
functions) by training in real time on sets of binary words.  Using
this approach, the TDL pattern recognizer hardware is capable of
making millions of decisions a second.

	  NSC is interested in aiding in the development of products
that may contain TDL.  For contact information and additional
details about the technology visit the NSC Web site at:

http://www.neuralsyscorp.com

bretsmith4u1 wrote:
>        Neural Systems Corporation (NSC) has developed a technology
> called trainable digital logic (TDL), which performs many of the
> functions performed by artificial neural networks.  TDL circuitry
> typically is significantly simpler and orders of magnitude faster
> than the equivalent neural network.  General purpose TDL pattern
> recognizers can be constructed using FPGAs or as part of a chip that
> performs additional functions. Development funding was provided by
> the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of
> Standards and Technology.

Bleh,
that was invented at least 12 years ago...
Look up "Adaptive Logic Networks"


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Speaking of chatterbots, I've been playing around with a community
based one (i.e. anyone can enter rules). It's just in the beginning
stages so be gentle.

http://www.nerdtopia.com/genie.htm

I've also got a nice 8x8x8 chess program, with AI of course :-) on
the same site if anyone is interested.


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Gardiner" <oldsalo@...> wrote:
>
> Please take a look at the 2006 Chatterbox Challenge:
>
> http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/
>
> Converse with the Bots & vote for the 3 best !!
>
> Many thanks.
>

Hi

So a chatterbox is supposed to simulate a real human.
Interesting. I haven't heard of chatterboxes before.
How do they work?

Regards
Christian

>
> Speaking of chatterbots, I've been playing around
> with a community
> based one (i.e. anyone can enter rules). It's just
> in the beginning
> stages so be gentle.
>
> http://www.nerdtopia.com/genie.htm
>
> I've also got a nice 8x8x8 chess program, with AI of
> course :-) on
> the same site if anyone is interested.
>
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hello,does anyone know how to use the Neural Network
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i have the toolbox but don't know how to use it for my
project.
thanks


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HI guys Dose anyone of you know how to use CLIPS .. and if anyyone has
a Production system Example(Rules Set) ... its urgent Guys

Some interesting stuff happening in the new media art scene, have a
browse through www.rhizome.org or start at http://rhizome.org/netartnews/

Andre SC

·!¦[· Ahsan ·]¦!· wrote:
> Hi pals... how are you doing????
>
>   i need help.....  actually i want to do a semester project on
> Artificial intelligence.... i am a bachelors student.... and dont know
> what to do..... i dont even know the list of projects that can be done
> in this field..... if any of you help me in this regard.... you can
> help me by just naming the projects that can be done for this
> level..... i'll be greatefull to you people.....waiting for your reply....
>
>
> ---------------------------------

you can do a project by using back propagation as the
backbone and try to find out whether it can be applied
in variuos domains like identifying different
varieties of a single plant, or face recognition,
speech recognition etc.



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> Some interesting stuff happening in the new media
> art scene, have a
> browse through www.rhizome.org or start at
> http://rhizome.org/netartnews/
>
> Andre SC
>
> ·!¦[· Ahsan ·]¦!· wrote:
> > Hi pals... how are you doing????
> >
> >   i need help.....  actually i want to do a
> semester project on
> > Artificial intelligence.... i am a bachelors
> student.... and dont know
> > what to do..... i dont even know the list of
> projects that can be done
> > in this field..... if any of you help me in this
> regard.... you can
> > help me by just naming the projects that can be
> done for this
> > level..... i'll be greatefull to you
> people.....waiting for your reply....
> >
> >
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>
>
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Hi yashoda...
Go to "Help" in matlab and search for the topic u
want..u will get all the commands and text related to
what u want..

Bye,
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i have the toolbox but don't know how to use it for my
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hi yashoda?
   could you please send me the toolbox...?
   thanks

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Most work with pattern matching. There's a series of rules and
responses. For example:

Rule:
-----------------
Hello *

Response(s)
------------------
Hi there.
Howdy!
Greetings.


When a rule matches, one of the responses is choosen and the
program "seems human". In this case the "*" symbol is a wildcard. So
you would get one of the listed responses for "Hello", or
even "Hello, my name is Steve". Theoretically, the more
rules/responses the more lifelike the chatterbox. That's why I
opened mine up to the public-You can get many many inputs over the
internet. (but mine is still in it's infancy)

The original chatterbox was called "Eliza". It had about 50 rules
that simulated a psychologist. (Basically, it just repeated what you
said with a question). You can probably find it online somewhere,
and even the source code. Modern chatterboxes have much more
complicated hueristics, but all use some variation of the
rules/patterns model. Some can even "learn" as they go.

Here's a high end chatterbox http://www.alicebot.org
And mine again *shameless plug* http://www.nerdtopia.com/genie.htm

Enjoy!

David

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<chrism588@...> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> So a chatterbox is supposed to simulate a real human.
> Interesting. I haven't heard of chatterboxes before.
> How do they work?
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
> >
> > Speaking of chatterbots, I've been playing around
> > with a community
> > based one (i.e. anyone can enter rules). It's just
> > in the beginning
> > stages so be gentle.
> >
> > http://www.nerdtopia.com/genie.htm
> >
> > I've also got a nice 8x8x8 chess program, with AI of
> > course :-) on
> > the same site if anyone is interested.
> >
> >
>
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Hi All,

I am a student of Master Of Computer Science (ECU Australia).

I am working on an assignment and am required to make Eliza - Computer
Psychologist.

Does anyone knows how to start writing the program. Actually I am
required to make a simple program.
If any one of you have attempted to write the program please show me
the code so that i can start writing. I am required to use SWI-Prolog
for the assignment.

regards,
Devang

hi all

i have to design a fuzzy logic toolbox in vb.net, and i need some
information about how i describe membership functions in source code,
there are a lot of membership functions, and i dont know what are
they , i dont know what formula they have got.
could anybody help me?

Another strategy is to learn from human inputs; my bot CHAT is a
minimalist program which adopts this strategy. This has the advantage
of allowing the bot to hold a conversation in any language!

You can vote for CHAT and other bots at
http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/

Jeremy Gardiner

--- In artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com, dachessdude
<no_reply@> wrote:

Most work with pattern matching. There's a series of rules and
responses.

--- In artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com, Christian M
<chrism588@> wrote:

So a chatterbox is supposed to simulate a real human.
Interesting. I haven't heard of chatterboxes before.
How do they work?

Nice little thing. I added a rule to your chatterbox.
Do you share the source code with anyoneone or do you
just work on it alone? It would be interesting to see
it. How does a learning chatterbox work? This is more
interesting.
The AI in these chatterboxes is quite simple. They
have a set of predefined rules. It would be really
interesting if they would have a the ability to
reason. This is no small thing I know. The Cyc
knowledge base tries to do this. There approach is
ambitious. I wonder how well it works?

Regards
Chris


Most work with pattern matching. There's a series of
rules and
responses. For example:

Rule:
-----------------
Hello *

Response(s)
------------------
Hi there.
Howdy!
Greetings.


When a rule matches, one of the responses is choosen
and the
program "seems human". In this case the "*" symbol is
a wildcard. So
you would get one of the listed responses for "Hello",
or
even "Hello, my name is Steve". Theoretically, the
more
rules/responses the more lifelike the chatterbox.
That's why I
opened mine up to the public-You can get many many
inputs over the
internet. (but mine is still in it's infancy)

The original chatterbox was called "Eliza". It had
about 50 rules
that simulated a psychologist. (Basically, it just
repeated what you
said with a question). You can probably find it online
somewhere,
and even the source code. Modern chatterboxes have
much more
complicated hueristics, but all use some variation of
the
rules/patterns model. Some can even "learn" as they
go.

Here's a high end chatterbox http://www.alicebot.org
And mine again *shameless plug*
http://www.nerdtopia.com/genie.htm

Enjoy!

David

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Hi,

     I had the source code for the program once, but it  has now been lost.

     Basically, the program is quite simple. It searches  the input string for
key words and phrases. It then produces an output string  based on the input
string with certain words transformed. For example, if the  input string is 'I
feel tired', the program might have 'I feel' as a key phrase.  It would then
detect this key phrase in the input string and produce  an output string based
on standard replies to the input string. In this  case, the output string
might be 'Why do you feel' followed by the rest of the  input string which
followed the key phrase, in this case 'tired'.

     Another example might be if the input string is  'Why do you dislike
me?'. In this case 'Why do you' might be the key phrase and  the standard reply
linked to the key phrase might be 'I do not *' where *  represents the
transformed remainder of the input string. The transformation  rules are 'you'
-> 'me',
me - > 'you', 'I' -> 'You' etc. In this case  the output would be 'I do not
dislike you'.

     Eliza is a crude imitation of intelligence. It is  not genuine
intelligence and the techniques outlined above will never lead to  genuine
intelligence.
So I would not recommend that you spend too much time on  it. It is a piece
of entertainment, but nothing more.

Regards
Martin



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Thanx for your help.

I think i can do it now....

Regards,
Devang









----- Original Message ----
From: Jeremy Gardiner <oldsalo@...>
To: artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, 21 April, 2006 8:25:37 PM
Subject: [Artificial Intelligence Group] Re: Chatterbox

Another strategy is to learn from human inputs; my bot CHAT is a
minimalist program which adopts this strategy. This has the advantage
of allowing the bot to hold a conversation in any language!

You can vote for CHAT and other bots at
http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/

Jeremy Gardiner

--- In artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com, dachessdude
<no_reply@> wrote:

Most work with pattern matching. There's a series of rules and
responses.

--- In artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com, Christian M
<chrism588@> wrote:

So a chatterbox is supposed to simulate a real human.
Interesting. I haven't heard of chatterboxes before.
How do they work?






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The source code isn't really that complicated (it's bascially just a
regular expression pattern match and a few "Like" statements in SQL
Server 2005). You can get the basis for this type of code from Eliza

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA (lots of variations and some
source code in the links there)

Reasoning is a *MUCH* more complicated affair. Cyc is probably the
closest right now using "common sense" rules. For mine I'm hoping to
add hueristics as I go along. The main thing (and you'll find this
is true with all chatterboxes) is getting the corpus of data. That's
why I made mine open to the public to add rules. (The link is in my
post below, I've been shameless enough with the plugs). You, and
everyone else, are of course welcome to add as many rules as you
like. The more rules/responses, the stronger the program becomes..
at least in theory.

Are there really 1700+ members to this group? WOW!!! I didn't
realize how much of an old timer I was. I joined the day after it
started... July of 1999!

Do they make a 7 year pin for nerds? Just askin' ;-)

David


--- In artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com, Christian M
<chrism588@...> wrote:
>
> Nice little thing. I added a rule to your chatterbox.
> Do you share the source code with anyoneone or do you
> just work on it alone? It would be interesting to see
> it. How does a learning chatterbox work? This is more
> interesting.
> The AI in these chatterboxes is quite simple. They
> have a set of predefined rules. It would be really
> interesting if they would have a the ability to
> reason. This is no small thing I know. The Cyc
> knowledge base tries to do this. There approach is
> ambitious. I wonder how well it works?
>
> Regards
> Chris
>
>
> Most work with pattern matching. There's a series of
> rules and
> responses. For example:
>
> Rule:
> -----------------
> Hello *
>
> Response(s)
> ------------------
> Hi there.
> Howdy!
> Greetings.
>
>
> When a rule matches, one of the responses is choosen
> and the
> program "seems human". In this case the "*" symbol is
> a wildcard. So
> you would get one of the listed responses for "Hello",
> or
> even "Hello, my name is Steve". Theoretically, the
> more
> rules/responses the more lifelike the chatterbox.
> That's why I
> opened mine up to the public-You can get many many
> inputs over the
> internet. (but mine is still in it's infancy)
>
> The original chatterbox was called "Eliza". It had
> about 50 rules
> that simulated a psychologist. (Basically, it just
> repeated what you
> said with a question). You can probably find it online
> somewhere,
> and even the source code. Modern chatterboxes have
> much more
> complicated hueristics, but all use some variation of
> the
> rules/patterns model. Some can even "learn" as they
> go.
>
> Here's a high end chatterbox http://www.alicebot.org
> And mine again *shameless plug*
> http://www.nerdtopia.com/genie.htm
>
> Enjoy!
>
> David
>
> >
>
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