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From: bruck@actcom.co.il (Uri Bruck)
Subject: Re: George and Martha
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 11:17:08 GMT
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Scott Cunningham (scottec@netcom.com) wrote:
: I just finished reading 'Terminal Man' by Michael Chriton and in it there 
: is an interesting AI simulation between two computer personalities named 
: George and Martha.

: 	George is known as Saint George because he is perpetually nice 
: and Martha is extremely irritating.  The premise is that the two 
: personallities exchange gifts.  Each personality has his/her own likes 
: and dislikes.  The conversations were somewhat 'Eliza' like but each 
: character learned from the replies of the other and changed the replies 
: to suit attitude/emotion.

: 	Has this been tried for real and if so what were/are the 
: results.  Is there code available for any major platform (or source).  
: The results in the book (though somewhat dramatic) were that Martha was 
: getting less and less bitchy until George finally blew a fuse and got 
: violent.

: 	This would be useful to use in negototiation AI for strategey 
: games.  I have in mind something like hostage negotiations where 
: terrorists could be worn down.

: 	Scott

A couple of years ago I read about conversations carried out between ttwo
Eliza descendant programs. One was DOCTOR the other was PARANOID.
Quite realistically at the end of each conversation the Doctor
suggested another meeting. As far as I know the paranoid still is.
Uri

