Fred (chatbot)
Fred, or FRED, was an early chatbot written by Robby Garner.
History
[edit | edit source]The name Fred was initially suggested by Karen Lindsey, and then Robby jokingly came up with an acronym, "Functional Response Emulation Device."[1] Fred has also been implemented as a Java application by Paco Nathan called JFRED Archived 2008-08-24 at the Wayback Machine.
Fred Chatterbot is designed to explore Natural Language communications between people and computer programs. In particular, this is a study of conversation between people and ways that a computer program can learn from other people's conversations to make its own conversations.[2]
Fred used a minimalistic "stimulus-response" approach. It worked by storing a database of statements and their responses, and made its own reply by looking up the input statements made by a user and then rendering the corresponding response from the database. This approach simplified the complexity of the rule base, but required expert coding and editing for modifications.
Fred was a predecessor to Albert One, which Garner used in 1998 and 1999 to win the Loebner Prize.[3]
See also
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Download Fred simonlaven.com
- JFRED mac.com
- Turing Hub testing turinghub.com
