CSSE 413: Day 13

Outline

• Communication and the role of language
• Introduction to NLP and its challenges
• Very early work on NLP
• An early NLP program: Eliza

Resources

• NLP in context of AI
• Very early work on NLP
• Demonstration of ELIZA
• To get access to Eliza, log into any Unix machine, fire up Emacs and then hit <ESC>-X, type "doctor", hit enter and you should have a dialog start up.
• Communication
• Slides
• Narration of slides.
• Natural language processing (NLP)
• Speech acts

Assignments

• Day 16, BC: Summarize the New Yorker article by Cal Newport: What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have? and submit it to the appropriate drop-box on Moodle. When it comes to the length, 350 - 400 words seems to work well for the purposes of our class. We will discuss this article in class.