[pandorabots-general] Form before function

[Dr. Rich Wallace]

Like I said, it's a work in progress :-)

> It's interesting to hear that the AAA set was designed to make it easier
> to have a human-like bot.  I've found it very difficult to use to that
> purpose, and have had to change quite a lot to de-robotify the
> personality that the AAA set produces (and I haven't succeeded
> entirely).  I think it would indeed be very interesting to make
> AAA-introvert, etc., as well as AAA-human and AAA-robot.
>
> Heh, an AAA-male would be a God-send :)
>
> Princess Artemis
>
> Dr. Rich Wallace wrote:
>> Very interesting and deep question.  There is already some duplication
>> between files in the AAA set.  By duplication I mean categories with
>> identical pattern, that, topic paths but different templates.  One would
>> like to ultimately build up a set of different generic AIML
>> personalities,
>> based for example on different personality types, that can then be
>> customized with biographical details to create unique characters.
>>
>> The history of the AAA set was motivated by two slightly opposing
>> factors.
>>  The original ALICE bot personality was hard-wired, so to speak, to have
>> the personality of a robotic intelligence.  Think of a character like
>> Bender, from Futurama, or the Computer from Star Trek.  ALICE was
>> pretending to be intelligent, but she always claimed to be a computer
>> intelligence.
>>
>> This was okay for the Loebner Prize Contests in 2000 and 2001.  But then
>> Loebner changed the rules and said that the contestant programs had to
>> pretend to be human.   Around the same time, people began asking for
>> commercial versions of the ALICE bot that could be customized for a
>> variety of different applications, such as sales bots, teacher bots,
>> celebrity bots, and so on, which would have quite different
>> personalities
>> than the original robot ALICE.
>>
>> So much of the work in the AAA set is an attempt to parameterize the bot
>> personality using bot properties such as name, age, location, birthday,
>> favorites, feelings, emotions, personality type, species, genus, order,
>> phylum, kingom, friends, and so on.  The idea is to make it easier for
>> people to clone ALICE and create a God-bot, a Dragon, a Hobbit, a
>> Salesman, a Soldier, a Teacher or a Robot, or any other type of
>> charachter, mostly by changing the bot properties only.  Needless to
>> say,
>> this parameterization is still a work in progress.
>>
>> It is actually quite difficult to draw the line between fact and
>> personality, even for the most generic things like symbolic reductions
>> and
>> informational questions like "What is 2 plus 2" becuase it depends what
>> kind of personality you want your bot to have.   A joke accounting bot
>> might answer "I can make 2 plus 2 be whatever you want it to be."
>>
>> So basically I think duplicates are okay for the AAA set, so long as
>> they
>> are put into distinct files and somehow we indicate "choose this file
>> for
>> adult content, or this file for PG-13" and that sort of thing.  I think
>> it
>> would be neat to eventually evolve into a set of bots like
>> "AAA-Extrovert", "AAA-Introvert", "AAA-Idealist" or something along
>> those
>> lines.
>
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