Eliza and Artificial Intelligence

After playing with the Eliza chatbot, and Alice chat bot I think that they have many flaws. I believe that they use too many of the same responses repeatedly. They also should answer questions. They often say something that was not even relevant that does not relate in any way to what I was previously saying. Overall, I think the biggest problems is to give answers that are more helpful, and more intelligent. They should ask questions, and make sure not to repeat the same phrase more than once, elaborate on what they are saying because often it does not make sense and last they should only say something if it is relevant to the current topic.

Results of 20 Questions

Today in class we played twenty questions online. The computer program asked a lot of questions, and tried to figure out what you had in your head. The first one we did was Disney, and our character was Donald Duck. We answered all of the questions to the best of our ability referring to the character. In the end of the round, the computer guessed Donald Duck on our 19th turn. I think that playing 20 questions was fun. I think that it was easy for the computer to guess topics that people use commonly. Donald Duck must have been one that people use for the Disney category because it is a well known character. If we put in a character that had not been as well known as him, we may have made it farther in the round. The more common the topic, the more likely the computer will guess what your topic is and maybe a bit faster as well.

My Design

Design #5 Choice

Cornrows Curves Braids

Design Tools Assignment #3

Since design one, making the patterns has definitely got a lot easier. When I was making the first design, I was unsure of how to make them the most efficient way possible. It was easy to figure out once I got to the second and third ones.  This one especially was easier than numbers one and two. I really liked the option of triangles on this specific pattern because there were a lot of triangles in it. Using the triangle setting, it reduced the amount of time because I did not have to make a lot of lines just in order to make a triangle, instead I just make one triangle in the same amount of time that you can make one line in.

Basket Weaving #2

To make this image of the dog, I used the technique of lines. It was a lot easier to be able to make a whole line of dots instead of make one point at at time. I had fun making this dog and I think that the technique I used worked well for me. I think that making lines instead of points is also a lot more efficient because you are getting a lot more done at a time instead of taking too much time just for a line.