http://www.metafilter.com/tags/artificialminds Posts tagged with 'artificialminds' at MetaFilter. Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:34:00 -0800 Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:34:00 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/20174/ <a href="http://www.loebner-atlanta.org/">Another year, another Chat.</a> This year's <a href="http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html">Loebner Prize</a> competition will be held next week in Atlanta, GA <small>(at <a href="http://www.scitrek.org/">SciTrek</a> and <a href="http://www.gsu.edu">GSU</a>)</small>. The yearly contest is a modified <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/#7">"Turing test"</a> <small>(<a href="http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm">seminal paper here</a>)</small> where people try to guess whether they're chatting with computers or with people. <br /><br /> There are some resources for <a href="http://www.generation5.org/solutions.shtml">rolling your own</a> <a href="http://alice.sunlitsurf.com/alice/aiml.html">AI bot</a>, but before you begin, think about these two sentences and you'll see what a serious problem natural language is: "We gave the monkeys the bananas because they were <b>hungry</b>" and "We gave the monkeys the bananas because they were <b>ripe</b>" <small>(nod to <a href="http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/#Haugeland">this guy </a>for the example)</small>. You have to know a lot about the world and the things in it to disambiguate the <i>"they"</i> in those sentences. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.20174 Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:34:00 -0800 AI artificialintelligence artificialminds chatbot philosophy turingtest zpousman