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intro.psych (Psyco 105) Discussion: Group 2 Discussion Group: Cognitive Development: Sites to Visit: TIPS - An Artificial Intelligence Program That Talks to You
By Connie Varnhagen (Admin) on Wednesday, September 2, 1998 - 02:29 pm:
TIPS is an artificial intelligence program that "speaks" English. TIPS is maintained by Communications Canada. Try having a conversation with TIPS. Is TIPS a good communicator? What is it about our speech that makes is "conversation?"
The problem I found with TIPS is that you can easily make it repeat an answer. Even if the question is slightly different. I even got answers to the wrong question. (I won't elaborate because it was about sex). I think it would be a better comunicator if it remembered what it had already said. Perhaps adding a "like I already said.." or something. After awhile you can figure out what the keywords are and trick it.
I noticed that the only way that TIPs would be able to answer any of my wuestions was to repeat what he had said in a question form. For example, in the mystery conversation, if TIPs said it had had a bad day, you would have to say 'why did you have a bad day." Its almost reminiscent of how we talk to children:
TIPS is a good conversationalist only if you ask it the right questions. This seems more like a question and answer session than a true conversation. According to webster's (from the online dictionary at www,dictionary.com) conversation is the interchange of sentiments
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By Angela on Saturday, September 26, 1998 - 12:22 am:
By Daki on Sunday, September 27, 1998 - 03:50 pm:
Baby: I got a boo boo
MoM: where di you get a boo boo?
Baby: on my finger, it hurts alot
Mom: oh, does your finger hurt alot?
As well, we also seem to speak in "baby" talk when we talk to children, thinking they will understand us better.
As for TIPS, I found that it worked surprisingly well, (esp. the job interview one). I am willing to guess that TIPS tried to pick out key words in your response, and sees if it correlates to the number of replies that could be given. If it matches, then it will say
"correct...". However, if the words said are not found in its number of replies that should be correct, it will tell you the answer.
Although it was very impressive, I still think computers have along way to go before it can truly understand conversation (not to mention slang).
By Angela on Monday, September 28, 1998 - 11:06 am:
and observations. In that sense this is a one sided conversation we are recieving the sentiments and observations of a computer (well actually a programmer or a text book). This program uses keywords to find the proper response to your questions, proper grammer isn't necessary. It is also similar to the children's site in the sense that you have choices, but unfortunatly they are not clear and you can make a wrong choice. The only "conversation" that seems like a conversation is the mystery conversation. It however is still a question and answer session, the only difference is that the program prompts you for a certain question, like "I've had a bad week". There is some wonder wether this is artificial intelligence. We have all heard of the IBM computer, Deep Blue, beating the world champion of chess, this computer has been programmed with most of the possible moves and outcomes.
Its really a calculater that figures out which move gives it the best chance of winning, and it can "learn" from its mistakes in the sense that it adds another set of statistics to its memory. TIPS does not "learn", and it only gives a programmed response to a certain actions. Well then isn't it sort of like Deep Blue? I can see this could go in circles. Basicly, the idea that TIPS converses can go both ways, it depends on your definition of conversation, and wether the ability to fully understand language is a factor.
By Angela on Monday, September 28, 1998 - 11:06 am: