RE : Can an AI bot write technical documents?

[Yves JEAUROND <jingting -at- rogers -dot- com>]

Thanks for the links to bots.
   
  Bots continue to fail because their syntax algorithms,
as good as they may be, do not provide them with even
 a smidgeon of semantics--let alone performatives or pragmatics*.
 It all winds down to canned responses. A parrott-like algorithm
that is unfeeling, blind, deaf, dumb, that cannot taste nor smell.
 A stone. We humans use automatic responses too, yet we can 
choose not to, or shift into other ==> semantic <== fields.
   
  Once more, with feeling,
   
  YJ
  * On pragmatics, there's wonderful stuff about Grice here and there. For example, see Blakemore, Diane, Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics, Blackwell, 1992.
   
   
   

Lauren <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu> a écrit :
  All this talk about identities reminded me of artificial intelligence and
got me to thinking if an AI bot could carry on a better conversation than
that person we don't know. They do. 

So now I wonder, if an AI bot could perform basic technical writing tasks.
Like if information from a work flow was given to a bot, can the bot piece
the information together in a reasonably intelligent way so that the work
would really only require editing by a person? At least for some pieces of
the documentation anyway.

Talk to a bot and make your own decision.

The turinghub is limited to five minutes, but I think it is the original big
name internet AI bot, named after the Turing test, of course.
http://www.turinghub.com/ 

This link is for A.L.I.C.E. She was the 2004 Chatterbox Challenge Champion.
http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=f5d922d97e345aa1 

Bildgesmythe took attitude with me when I asked if it could write technical
documents. "The bot no longer wants to talk to you." You know it's sad
when you bots blow you off. http://www.personalityforge.com/directchat.php

More bots are shown at http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/.

Lauren
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