[IAEP] Emulating Alice in Turtle

[Walter Bender]

I wrote a bit of Python glue [1] so that you can load the Alice engine
into Turtle Art. Download the file, load it into a Python block, pass
it a string, and the robot will respond. (The response is pushed to
the FILO stack and can be accessed using a Pop block.) Enjoy.

-walter

[1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/turtleart/mainline/blobs/raw/master/pysamples/brain.py

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That is what was done in the Speak Activity so it can provide a
> good model.
>
> Tony
>
>
>
>
> On 11/17/2012 08:26 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
>>
>> 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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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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