[IAEP] Emulating Alice in Turtle

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

And the guys in the US can do amazing stuff while we are asleep in Australia
:)

> And a TA project to interact with Alice...
> 
> -walter
> 
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >>>>
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