Posted by KaraS on May 22, 2005, at 13:06:05
In reply to Re: Anyone know anything about this CBT program? » KaraS, posted by alexandra_k on May 21, 2005, at 21:37:57
> Colby...
> The name rang a bell.
> Click.
> He made a program 'Parry the Paranoid'.
> It was a language program that was supposed to emulate a paranoid schizophrenic.
>
> The turing test was a test that was made up by Alan Turing (the guy behind the notion of turing machines - which can compute anything computable). He thought that a test for an intelligent program was basically whether it could fool people into thinking they were conversing with a human being and not just a computer program.
>
> Some people say that the Parry program passed.
> It fooled a number of psychiatrists.
>
> (People have joked that that tells us more about the intelligence of psychiatrists than it does about Parry's intelligence).
>
> Actually it was criticised on a number of grounds.
> Ethics prevented the psychiatrists from asking certain sorts of questions (they had to judge whether they were conversing with a real person or not).
> Also, Parry could resort to stock paranoid sounding phrases when the program didnt' know how to handle certain questions.
>
> That led someone to say 'I've made a computer program that is a perfect model of a subject with autism. You turn it on and it just sits there and ignores you'.
>
> Hmm.
>
> So... I asked a while back if anyone could find the Parry program online. I couldn't find it.
>
> I wanted to pit parry against eliza the (Rogerian) psychotherapist.
>
> Here is a link to Eliza:
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> http://www.manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3
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> It is an old program now.
> I imagine this new CBT one would be a bit better...
> But the limits of AI should be apparant...
OK, maybe not such a good idea...
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