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Thursday, February 28, 2002

What do you mean, I remind you of John Lennon?


One of the first computer programs I ever played with or attempted to understand was a cut down version of the famous Eliza program that Joseph Wiezenbaum described in his seminal work Computer Power and Human Reason. mostly to blast it's competence as a psychotherapist. Which it never pretended to be. The trick was to take an input sentence like "I hate you because of my dreams". The sentence would then be conjugated, thus : "You hate me because of my dreams", and then be spat back at the user. "Why do you hate me because of your dreams?". A further twist would be to use a keyword like "dreams", so that occasionally the reply to the above sentence would be "I see, tell me about your dreams.".


Amazingly this facade fooled many people. However, the state of the art appears to have moved on to some degree. There is a whole page devoted to these things, amazingly : The Simon Laven Page.


This, however, has to be the best use of the technology yet: just imagine reams of automated John Lennon wibble. Spike Milligan deservers a similar tribute, at the very least.

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Thursday, February 28, 2002

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