Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Reflections on Session 10

We had a really lively discussion on whether data mining constituted invasion of privacy. My thoughts are posted at the end of the discussion thread. Some of you may disagree but you need to separate the technology from its application.

My first contact with bots was a computer program called AI Doctor. You, "the patient," would converse with a virtual doctor to help diagnose your ailment and come up with a treatment. It worked on the same principle as ALICE where words from the "patient" were parsed, processed and linked with pre-programmed responses. We have come far from AI Doctor with the use of the XML dialect, Artificial Intelligence Markup Language. This is a significant leap forward compared to when I used GW-BASIC many years ago to program my AI Doctor program.

For the session's mini-project, most students were quite unimpressed with their interactions with the chat bots. I guess it is because of their expectations, the current wave of video games, and what they have seen in the past.

Little do my students know that...I AM A CHAT BOT! I certainly fooled yoI certainly fooled yo
I certainly fooled yo
I certainly fooled yo
I certainly fooled yo
I certainly fooled yo
I certainly fooled yo
I certainly fooled yo

(::Transmission ending due to technical issues technical issuestechnical issuestechnical issuestechnical issues



The REAL Dr. Pang!

2 comments:

Patty Berger said...

Les,

I thought I would take the time to read your blog. It is nice to go back and reflect what we have learned so far. I also realized that by reading other blogs mine is so boring. I hope I didn't put you to sleep.

Patty

Les said...

No, Patty, your blog didn't put me to sleep. But it's a nice idea to put a little pizzaz to it!