[IAEP] Emulating Alice in Turtle

[Walter Bender]

If we made a "python block" front end to the AIML engine, we could use
it in Turtle Art. I've not played with AIML, but it looks to be fairly
straight forward.

-walter

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a footnote. There may be some who are not aware that Alice is based on
> AIML:
>
> http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIML
>
> The AIML engine in Speak is written in Python.
>
> An intriguing idea is to make a teachable bot:
>
> http://www.simonlaven.com/leo.htm
>
> This could result in a dialog like this:
>
> type: hello
> response: I don't know what to say.
> type: say: hello
> response: hello
> type: How are you?
> response: I don't know what to say.
> type: say: I'm fine, thanks. How are you?
> response: I'm fine, thanks. How are you?
> type: Goodbye
> response: I dont' know what to say.
> type say: Goodbye
>
> AIML is a way to give rules on how to respond to an input. It has a default
> response when none of the rules are triggered. The default response in Alice
> is randomly chosen from a set of alternatives. However, the default response
> could always be 'I don't not what to say' or 'bitte'. The response 'say:'
> could then trigger the engine to add the response as a rule.
>
> Another intriguing idea is to add the AIML engine to chat so that alice
> could participate. In the AIML model, Alice would not enter the conversation
> except in response to questions.
>
> Tony
>
> On 11/17/2012 05:45 AM, iaep-request at lists.sugarlabs.org wrote:
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