Do you know why Lisp is good for AI?
Lisp is a powerful list processing and text
processing tool.
That's where the name Lisp comes from.
But how is scraping websites good for artificial
intelligence?
Lisp is the programming language behind many
natural language interfaces.
I've heard the computer generated language
in a lot of Youtube videos, and they do not
sound very natural.
Lisp is used to parse someone's question and
search a large knowledge base for answers
to the question.
That sounds like the computer that won Jeopardy.
It was funny when they had to wipe its memory
because it had started cussing.
Maybe it picked up the bad words from the
programmers.
An AI only knows the words it learns from
others, and it uses Lisp to determine context
clues to figure out what someone is asking
it.
It is certainly smarter than a toddler who
asks why, but does not care about the answer.
In more advanced systems, it can even figure
out the related information it needs and ask
you for more detail.
That's actually problem solving.
Where are they using this artificial intelligence?
Do you ever see those "talk to our expert"
pop ups on a website?
Yeah, but it can get tedious trying to ask
something of the Indian operator who just
does not get it.
Actually, it is usually a chat bot, and it
is powered by Lisp and artificial intelligence.
I'm not sure I consider that a sign of intelligence.
You saw flaws in the conversation, like perhaps
not understanding a complicated sentence or
unusual word.
But you mistook it for a language gap in a
conversation with a person.
This reminds me of the Turing test.
The Turing test sets the threshold for saying
when a robot is as smart as a person, and
that's when we cannot tell the difference
unless we're sitting in front of them.
At fair approximation through the internet
is not too far from being there.
And you get smarter conversation from the
Lisp powered AI than half of Chatroulette.
That's generous.
