Re: Artificial Intelligence: "The Remembrance Agent"

[Don Stockbauer]

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> > "Will Dockery" <will.dock...@gmail.com> ha scritto nel 
> > messaggionews:4c0372b4-1ab5-4b93-bf37-d75ca803042f@z1g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> > On Dec 13, 3:24 pm, 0x0000 <zero_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > +gnu.misc.discuss +alabama.general -alt.arts.poetry -rec.arts.poems
> > >>Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > This was sent to me by a friend, anyone know of this, and how
> > > > effective it is as far as AI development?
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> > > > "...I ran across something here you might be interested in, it's
> > > > called "The Remembrance Agent" -
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> > > >> The Remembrance Agent is one of the projects being developed by
> > > >> the MIT Media # Lab's software agents group. Given a collection
> > > >> of the user's accumulated a email, Usenet news articles,
> > > >> papers, saved HTML files and other text notes, it a attempts to
> > > >> find those documents which are most relevant to the user's
> > > >> current a context. That is, it searches this collection of text
> > > >> for the documents which a bear the highest word-for-word
> > > >> similarity to the text the user is currently a editing, in the
> > > >> hope that they will also bear high conceptual similarity and a
> > > >> thus be useful to the user's current work. These suggestions are
> > > >> continuously a displayed in a small buffer at the bottom of the
> > > >> user's emacs buffer. If a a suggestion looks useful, the full
> > > >> text can be retrieved with a single command. a
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> > > >http://www.remem.org/
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> > > > I just installed this software package (remembrance) on the upstairs
> > > > computer and am going to start "training" it. I can set this up so
> > > > you can create a document repository - or possibly use an existing
> > > > one (e.g. wikinfo) to train it on your own stuff... It could
> > > > conceivably be integrated into a "chat-bot" type app, as well - if
> > > > you're interested, let me know, and I'll start working on it.
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> > Sounds good... now three or four AI that could interact and create
> > music and words for /listenable/ songs would be anther step, on down
> > the line, maybe.
>
> With all the crap out there, perhaps a "Disremembrance Agent" would be
> more useful.

There was another thought which a scanning of those tiny electronic
headlines often invoked.  The more wonderful the means of
communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents
seemed to be. Accidents, crimes, natural and man-made disasters,
threats of conflict, gloomy editorials-these still seemed to be the
main concern of the millions of words being sprayed into the ether.
Yet Floyd also wondered if this was altogether a bad thing; the
newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.