Fred, or FRED, was an early chatbot written by Robby Garner.
History
editThe name Fred was initially suggested by Karen Lindsey, and then Robby jokingly came up with an acronym, "Functional Response Emulation Device."[1] Fred has also been implemented as a Java application by Paco Nathan called JFRED Archived 2008-08-24 at the Wayback Machine.
Fred Chatterbot is designed to explore Natural Language communications between people and computer programs. In particular, this is a study of conversation between people and ways that a computer program can learn from other people's conversations to make its own conversations.[2]
Fred used a minimalistic "stimulus-response" approach. It worked by storing a database of statements and their responses, and made its own reply by looking up the input statements made by a user and then rendering the corresponding response from the database. This approach simplified the complexity of the rule base, but required expert coding and editing for modifications.
Fred was a predecessor to Albert One, which Garner used in 1998 and 1999 to win the Loebner Prize.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "The Simon Laven Page". Robitron History. 2017-06-18. Archived from the original on June 18, 2017.
- ^ Caputo, L.; Garner, R.; Nathan., P. (1997). "FRED, Milton and Barry: the evolution of intelligent agents for the Web". Advances in intelligent systems – via ACM Digital Library.
- ^ Christiansen, Søren Gjellerup. "Techniques applied to pass the Turing Test". Master's Thesis. Archived from the original on September 14, 2007.
External links
edit- Download Fred simonlaven.com
- JFRED mac.com
- Turing Hub testing turinghub.com
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