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From: mwreo@gil.com.au (Paul Price)
Subject: Re: ELIZA was '66... What's 1996 ?!
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i17@netcom.com (Valucard International) wrote:
>Looking for something which might reflect the effects of 30 YEARS of
>research and development and imagination and technological advancement,
>I find only ELIZA, DEBRA and JULIA in a half-hour of net-poking.
>Can someone direct me to some software that doesn't reflect the state of 
>the art in BASIC programming circa 1966 ?

Right on!! I have never heard it better!!! I bought a CD named
"The AI CD-ROM Revision 3" last year and although it is totally
full of all sorts of AI related stuff, there is nothing on it
that would cause me to say "WOW!" - only a bunch of theoretical
stuff and *basic* example code written in computer languages that
only the oldest of us would remember.

What we really need is for those who have professional level
knowledge to write some *professional* level practical programs
showing the world how AI really works in real life programs and
to make the source code freely available on the net.

There are probably over half a million shareware authors out
there. How many of them use AI (apart from game programmers)? Not
many. But they could if the knew how!

Don't flame me. Prove me wrong by posting the code.

Paul Price

