tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Interactive Discourse: Looking t o the Future Panel "

In any technological field, both short-term and longterm research can be aided by considering where that technology might be ten, twenty, fifty years down the pike. In the field of natural language interactive systems, a 21 year vision is particularly apt to consider, since it brings us to the year 2001. One wellknown vision [I] of 2001 includes the famous computer named Hal - one offspring, so to speak, of the major theoretical and engineering breakthrough in computers that Clarke records as having occurred in the early 1980's. . | Interactive Discourse Looking to the Future Panel Chair s Introduction Bonnie Lynn Webber University of Pennsylvania In any technological field both short-term and longterm research can be aided by considering where that technology might be ten twenty fifty years down the pike. In the field of natural language Interactive systems a 21 year vision Is particularly apt to consider since It brings US to the year 2001. One well-known vision 1 of 2001 includes the famous computer named Hal - one offspring so to speak of the major theoretical and engineering breakthrough In computers that Clarke records as having occurred In the early 1980 s. This computer Hal Is able to understand and converse in perfect idiomatic English written and spoken with the crew of the spacecraft Discovery. And not just task-oriented dialogues mind you Hal is a far cry from today s prototype natural language query systems Intelligent CAI-systems diagnostic assistance systems and Kurzweil machines. For one thing Hal Is not just responsive he takes the Initiative. His first documented utterance on board the spacecraft Discovery comes at a time when the crewmen Bowman and Poole are engrossed In a fading vision screen Image of Poole s family on Earth on the occasion of Poole s birthday. Sorrv to interrupt the festivities said Hai but we have a problem. Not only can Hal converse in perfect idiomatic English but he is a master of problem context Panel 1 and social context Panel 2 as well Now Hal Is clearly where we currently are not at and 2001 is clearly only one man s vision albeit a very special man . Yet Clarke s depiction of Hal raises several issues which along with other ones provide a cue for the current panel discussion. The Issues Include 1. Where is it that we want to have must have can expect to have or conversely should not have to have Natural Language Interactive Systems 2. Barring Clarke s reliance on the triumph of automatic neural network generation what are the major hurdles that .