Sunday, October 23, 2005

Eliza, or the difficulties of conversation



“..Argumentation schemes, which capture stereotypical patterns of human reasoning, have the potential to play a fundamental role in structuring communication between filming processes. In order for this potential to be realized, however, substantial work needs to be carried out in building a formal system to represent argumentation schemes, which can then be used as a bridge between the philosophical research and the computational demands of image implementation… This short video involves novel work in both philosophy and ‘pataphysics..”

Well, just ask Eliza. Sam R. muses, thinking of all the hassles Joseph Weizenbaum had after creating his Pygmalian artificial interlocutor.
Click here or on Eliza to view the conversation from "Han Den Det"