Kalle Kotipsykiatri

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Kalle Kotipsykiatri ("Kalle, the home psychiatrist") was a Finnish language chatterbot program, giving an impression of Artificial Intelligence. It was published in the first issue of MikroBitti in May 1984. The program had been written by Pekka Tolonen for the Apple II home computer, and it was ported to the Commodore 64 by Jyrki Kasvi[1].

The first issue of MikroBitti contained a long article about Artificial Intelligence and the Kalle Kotipsykiatri program. The magazine published a complete type-in program listing in BASIC, but because Tolonen had included a routine to handle profanity, the magazine staff had censored part of the code. As a consequence, the program did not work as typed in, and MikroBitti was forced to patch the published listing for years[2].

Kalle Kotipsykiatri was based on the psychotherapy simulator program ELIZA, written in 1966 by Joseph Weizenbaum[3]

As well as the Apple II and the Commodore 64, Pekka Tolonen has ported Kalle Kotipsykiatri to the Commodore VIC-20[4] and Mikroilijat RY has ported it to the Spectravideo SV-328.

Other artificial personalities based on the Kalle code are Yrtsi (a punk dude) and the Erotic Artificial Personality Lulu. Lulu was featured in the "Thinking Machines" exhibition in the science centre Heureka, and as first in Finland, demonstrated the capabilities of an Atari home computer in interactive audio/video/speech synthesis. Pekka Tolonen is employed in the 2nd Life web community and is developing body language animations based on the Kalle 2.0 technology, that automatically interpret the user's reactions.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kasvi, Jyrki J. J.: Kalle Kotipsykiatri. MikroBitti May 1984
  2. ^ Saarikoski, Petri: Interview with Jyrki J. J. Kasvi: An M.P. from the microcomputer generation 2-3/2003. Wider Screen. (Referred 21 March 2007)
  3. ^ Suominen, Jaakko: Computerphobia as a manifestation of a technological viewpoint. Master's thesis, University of Turku, 1997. Online version
  4. ^ The Commodore Archive: VIC-20 entertainment programs. NT Rautanen Tietokonesivut. (Referred March 21 2007)
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