Re: megaHAL

[Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com>]

> why just not installing it and giving it a try - it's very simple.
> I've tried it. It's a chat/conversation engine.

OK

>I've written a thesis  about  dialogue systems,

Is this online somewhere?

>but megaHAL is not what someone would expect.

You mean megahal is sort of incomplete not developed completely?

> As  far as  I remember it has a different logic then ALICE but the
> output As is similar.

What is ALICE?

> Do you know that Wikipedia exists? It's explained there and you can find a
> lot of articles about it in Google.

I use the Wikipedia, that great jewel of the Internet; Google, not so much
just a quaint superstition about being syndicated.

I like to hear expert opinion outside the Wiki, personal experience
etc.

> No and no.

OK, it's a chat/conversation engine but not like a chat room so I'm
unlikely to have a diverting keyboard banter with megaHAL?  At first of
course I would be more tolerant like that first date.

>> What is a 'scripting pleasure module' for Perl Python or Tcl?

> I don't know ... what do you mean?

This was part of the package description when it came up. I thought it
might be an inside joke. Scripting pleasure modules has a kind of decadent
whiff about it. You better Google that, Emanoil.

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CK