Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 11:09:42 02/16/04
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On February 16, 2004 at 13:35:52, Heiner Marxen wrote: >On February 16, 2004 at 10:31:03, Steven Edwards wrote: [deletia] >>And although the exact implementation details of the above phrase "good reason" >>are not well defined at this point, it is guaranteed that each "good reason" >>will have a natural language representation. Thus, another reason for the TNS > >That is a very good idea IMHO. >Especially as it forces _you_ to make explicit (part of) your method. >OTOH, I would not object to usage of a few newly invented terms/words, here. >Such terms could be globally defined (by you, the programmer), or locally, >by Symbolic, for just one generated "explanation". ChessLisp also has a (speak <string-value>) function along with support for (format ...) and stream objects, so it can also provide a spoken running commentary on a search. This only works on the Macintosh version; however, Mac OS X has a couple of dozen pre-generated voices and I might use different voices for the different knowledge sources. I could even make an MP3 or QuickTime movie w/audio of a search and post it to the internet. >>node count limitation: Symbolic will produce an explanation audit trail with all >>of the good reasons, in English, for each decision made during the search and >>this document has to be easily readable (by me) for the purposes of tutoring the >>program. A multi-megabyte dump will not be useful, but a five or six page >>synopsis should work well. > >I admire your (obviously serious) effort to do AI in chess. Serious, yes. But success, if any, lies at the end of a long road. Symbolic is an AI effort first, a chess program second, a Lisp program (and interpreter) third, and fourth a C++ program at the bottom of everything. By my account, it is the first real chess AI effort by anyone in years to produce a competitive program.
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