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HVAC Control in the New Millenniuma user interface that will appear more human, even if the underlyingcomputer program is not artificially intelligent.The outgrowth of a more human interface is that the interface assumesa personality. This could mean an interface that gets in the waymore than it helps like MicroSoft’s BOB. But, if it is done correctly, thiscould make computers and Web sites easier and more natural to use.BOBMicrosoft’s BOB was an attempt at social interface as a front end toWindows. BOB was a short-lived market failure, but the concept lives onin the Intelligent Assistant in Microsoft Office. Office uses an interfacewith characters like an animated paper clip or friendly dog. You can askthe character questions, or you can click it out of the interface. Thesetechniques will be used in more computer systems over the next fewyears. The characters sometimes called bots or agents will probablybecome common in many Web sites.Natural-language PCsNatural-language processing is the ability to respond to a questionthat is phrased the way you would phrase it to another person. One Website that uses a natural-language interface is Ask Jeeves, which has aknowledge base of 7 million answers. Unlike most search engines, youask Jeeves a question and it gives you a list of specific questions itknows the answer to. One of these should help answer your originalquestion.ChatterbotsA chatterbot is a virtual character that you can ask questions of andget answers for a particular knowledge area. For example, a simulatedpsychiatrist could play back words and phrases based on a rudimentaryanalysis of the input. This demonstrates a simplistic form of artificialintelligence and some chatterbots can seem human at times and uselessat others.©2001 by The Fairmont Press, Inc. All rights reserved.