Floating

[dorayme]

I can't think of anything more perverse than someone who rewrote
Eliza in Basic. Eliza's _Basically_ about list processing in Lisp. I
could understand rewriting it in Haskel, Python, Ruby, or Perl. But
Basic? That's just sick. Sick. Sick.
:~)

Well maybe this accounts for the perversely rigid nature of such
a wizard, perhaps the original Lisp Wizard was more flexible?

 

[mbstevens]

Well maybe this accounts for the perversely rigid nature of such
a wizard, perhaps the original Lisp Wizard was more flexible?

I had a good Lisp version running on my 64K ram
Kaypro in 1983. That hot rod featured two big floppies for
storage.

Eliza's a really old program that has roots dating from nearly the
beginning of the AI movement. There is even a version running on the Emacs
editor. Part of the point of Eliza is to demonstrate the ease of doing
certain things when you can process lists.

 

[Leonard Blaisdell]

Eliza's a really old program that has roots dating from nearly the
beginning of the AI movement. There is even a version running on the Emacs
editor. Part of the point of Eliza is to demonstrate the ease of doing
certain things when you can process lists.

I really believe that smart people strive to get Eliza or a reasonable
child of Eliza functional to this day. After all, it's the perfect
Turing test IIRC.
And in what more perfect place could you test it than on Usenet?
Sometimes the posts are nonsensical but keep others posting. Sometimes
the author is brilliant in everything from gerenuks to asteroids to
soil. I'm not a conspiracist, but I know that testing a new version of
Super Eliza can and should be done here.

less than two cents,

leo

 

[dorayme]

I really believe that smart people strive to get Eliza or a reasonable
child of Eliza functional to this day. After all, it's the perfect
Turing test IIRC.
And in what more perfect place could you test it than on Usenet?
Sometimes the posts are nonsensical but keep others posting. Sometimes
the author is brilliant in everything from gerenuks to asteroids to
soil. I'm not a conspiracist, but I know that testing a new version of
Super Eliza can and should be done here.

less than two cents,

leo

Leo, it is being tested! Luigi is Eliza. But the weirdest,
weirdest thing on earth right now is this: Luigi, a human, is
failing the damn Turing test. At least by my score.