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Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 19:23:26 MDT
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From: "Mentifex" <uj797@victoria.tc.ca>
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Context switching is a big problem in the Seed AI that I am coding at
http://mind.sourceforge.net/index.html in JavaScript for Microsoft Internet
Explorer. When the lightning-fast Robot AI Mind is conversing with you, the
perhaps-like-me slow-thinking human user, there is a danger that the
thoughts
of the AI will race far ahead of the conversational context, so that the AI
can barely remember what you just said to it.
The current answer to the human-computer interface (HCI) problem of context
switching is to introduce a respondez-s'l-vous-plait ("rsvp") delay variable
that keeps the main "aLife()" loop of the AI from calling the "Think()"
module
too soon. Another variable, actually a "quiet" flag, keeps the AI from
thinking its own thoughts while you humans are entering input: "if (quiet ==
true)" THEN call Think().
A.T. Murray
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