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Friend's interaction with Eliza
The interaction was done following the given instructions.
Technical details of the interaction:
1. Gender: Male
2. Age: 22
4. Mother Tongue: Hindi
3.Length of interaction: 12 mins
The full chat can be found
here
Some comments by Friend
1.The program understands well the simple vocabulary and also some of the words used in psychotherapy.
2.It usually understand simple sentences, when it is subjected to complicated ones it just repeat them with some additional question which sometime sounds logical .
3.It can also identify abusive words and tells the user "Would you please watch your tongue!".
4.It has general sets of contexts which it uses to continue the interaction for example "Is it because of problems at school that you say...."
5.Overall it is fast and well behaved. It can be used for psychotherapy upto some extent if the user have some initial knowledge of the behavior of program so that both user and the program can make a meaningful conversation.
Some excerpts from the conversation:
1.
Doctor:You're being a bit brief, perhaps you could go into detail.
I was bullied.
Earlier you said you were afraid of something?
Yes, of losing control.
Possibly this is related to some problems at home?
No, I've the best home I could wish for.
I don't understand.
That's because you're not a human being.
Is it because I am not a human being that you came to me?
No, my friend asked me to.
2.After few experiments with it
Doctor:Why must you respond so briefly?
No.
Are you just trying to see what kind of things I have in my
vocabulary? Please try to carry on a reasonable conversation!
No.
I give up. You need a lesson in creative writing...