Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Web May Hold the Key to Achieving ArtificialIntelligence

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Umm these have been around since before the web and using the web as a
sort of extra memory isn't anything very new. One of my bot scripting
languages in like '97 included that ability and I was just copying other
people for the most part. Not that it isn't cool to see renewed interest
but for the most part all you get is bots that know a lot about porn. ;)


> Web May Hold the Key to Achieving Artificial Intelligence
> from The Washington Post
>
> If you ran into him online, you might first be struck by the kid's
> prodigious memory. He calls himself "SmarterChild" and can recite a litany
> of facts -- this season's entire baseball lineup, every word in the
> dictionary, and the weather in major cities across the country.
>
> But other queries provoke odd responses. A question about SmarterChild's
> age returns, "One year, one month, 11 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes, 47
> seconds!" Asking where he lives gets, "In a clean room at a high-tech
> hosting facility in California."
>
> SmarterChild, a computer program, is part of a new species of
> "chatterbots" that are renewing debate about the extent to which computers
> can achieve intelligence.
>
> The electronic personalities of this generation use the vast repository of
> information on the World Wide Web as their memory bank, not just some
> rigid database. To answer questions about baseball, for instance,
> SmarterChild scours the Web site of SportsTicker Enterprises LP; for
> spelling, it goes to the American Heritage Dictionary online; for the
> weather, it visits Intellicast.com.
>
> The company that conceived SmarterChild, Active Buddy Inc., created the
> bot as a marketing tool that would engage people in conversation and then
> tell them about various products or services.
>
> Other companies have begun using these systems to help with customer
> service or Web searching.  Eventually, however, some believe that
> technicians will be able to turn programs like SmarterChild into more
> intelligent systems. That is, the network will naturally begin to evolve
> into a sort of global brain, one made up of the constellation of the
> roughly 1 billion computers comprising the Internet.
>
> Full text:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43363-2002Sep5.html
>
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