HUMAN TRANSPARENCY PARADIGM

• US 20080301631A1
• Filed: 12/18/2007
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Original Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Inventors: Comair, Claude
• Application Number:
  US11/958,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20080301631A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/111
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 3/004 Artificial life, i.e. computing arrangements simulating life

Abstract

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for source code located on a storage system in a network data processing system. The source code is written in a language for predicting human behavior. An interpreter, executing in the network data processing system, executes a simulation using the source code. A synthetic human is defined in the source code and generates user input during the simulation. The user input modifies the source code. A graphical user interface processor receives interpreted source code from the interpreter and generates device dependent output using the interpreted source code. The interpreter receives live user input through a device to replace the user input generated by the synthetic human. The interpreter ceases using input generated by the synthetic human in response to receiving the live user input, and the interpreter includes live user input with the interpreted source code.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

source code located on a storage system in a network data processing system, wherein the source code is written in a language for predicting human behavior;

an interpreter executing in the network data processing system, wherein the interpreter executes a simulation using the source code to generate interpreted source code;

a synthetic human defined in the source code, wherein the synthetic human generates user input during the simulation and wherein the user input is present interpreted source code used to modify the source code;

a graphical user interface processor executing in the network data processing system, wherein the graphical user interface processor receives the interpreted source code from the interpreter to form received interpreted source code and generates device dependent output using the received interpreted source code; and

wherein the interpreter receives live user input from a real human through a device in communication with the graphical user interface processor to replace the user input generated by the synthetic human, the interpreter ceases using input generated by the synthetic human defined in the source code in response to receiving the live user input, and the interpreter includes the live user input with the interpreted source code used to modify the source code.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the synthetic human is an artificial intelligence program.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein live input from the real human replaces the input from the synthetic human without interrupting the simulation.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user input generated by the synthetic human is associated with a unique identifier and wherein the live user input replaces the user input by associating the live user input with the unique identifier for the synthetic human.

5. A computer implemented method for receiving input from a human, the computer implemented method comprising:

retrieving data from source code located in a storage system in a network data processing system to form retrieved data, wherein the retrieved data includes a synthetic human;

interpreting the retrieved data to perform a simulation of the human behavior using an interpreter executing on the network data processing system to generate results that include input generated by the synthetic human during interpreting of the retrieved data;

modifying the source code using the results to form modified source code;

responsive to a request to use live user input, ceasing using the synthetic human in performing the simulation; and

responsive to receiving the live user input that replaces the input from the synthetic human, writing results to the source code in which the results include the live user input to form the modified source code, wherein the modified source code provides new data utilized in subsequent interpretations of the retrieved data in performing the simulation to predict human behavior.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the retrieving, interpreting, modifying, ceasing, and writing steps are repeated during the simulation to predict the human behavior.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 5 further comprising:

receiving the live user input from a device in communication with a graphical user interface processor executing on the network data processing system; and

sending the live user input from the graphical user interface processor to the interpreter.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the input generated by the synthetic human is associated with unique identifier identifying the input as being generated by the synthetic human and wherein the live user input replaces the input when the live user input is associated with the unique identifier for the synthetic human.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 5 further comprising:

responsive to receiving user input having the unique identifier from a device, determining whether the user input is from an user that is allowed generate the live user input; and

responsive to the user being allowed to generate the live user input, using the user input as the live user input.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 5 further comprising:

receiving a request from a user at a device to send the live user input; and

responsive to the user being authorized to send the live user input, sending the unique identifier to device, wherein any user input including the unique identifier is identified as the live user input.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the replacement of input generated by the synthetic human with the live user input occurs transparently in the simulation.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the writing step is performed by a dispatcher in the interpreter,

13. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the unique identifier is added to the live user input by the interpreter.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the unique identifier is added to the live user input at a device used by a real human generating the live user input.

15. A computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for receiving input from a human, the computer program medium comprising;

computer usable program code for retrieving data from source code located in a storage system in a network data processing system to from retrieved data, wherein the retrieved data includes a synthetic human;

computer usable program code for interpreting the retrieved data to perform a simulation of the human behavior using an interpreter executing on the network data processing system to generate results that include input generated by the synthetic human during interpreting of the retrieved data;

computer usable program code for modifying the source code using the results to form modified source code;

computer usable program code, responsive to a request to use live user input, for ceasing using the synthetic human in performing the simulation; and

computer usable program code, responsive to receiving the live user input that replaces the input from the synthetic human, for writing results to the source code in which the results include the live user input to form the modified source code, wherein the modified source code provides new data utilized in subsequent interpretations of the retrieved data in performing the simulation to predict human behavior.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 further comprising:

computer usable program code for receiving the live user input from a device in communication with a graphical user interface processor executing on the network data processing system; and

computer usable program code for sending the live user input from the graphical user interface processor to the interpreter.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the input generated by the synthetic human is associated with unique identifier identifying the input as being generated by the synthetic human and wherein the live user input replaces the input when the live user input is associated with the unique identifier for the synthetic human.

18. A data processing system comprising:

a bus;

a communications unit connected to the bus;

a storage device connected to the bus, wherein the storage device includes computer usable program code; and

a processor unit connected to the bus, wherein the processor unit executes the computer usable program code to retrieve data from source code located in a storage system in a network data processing system to from retrieved data, wherein the retrieved data includes a synthetic human;

interpret the retrieved data to perform a simulation of the human behavior using an interpreter executing on the network data processing system to generate results that include input generated by the synthetic human during interpreting of the retrieved data;

modify the source code using the results to form modified source code;

cease using the synthetic human in performing the simulation in response to a request to use live user input; and

write results to the source code in which the results include the live user input to form the modified source code in response to receiving the live user input that replaces the input from the synthetic human, wherein the modified source code provides new data utilized in subsequent interpretations of the retrieved data in performing the simulation to predict human behavior.

19. The data processing system of claim 18 wherein the processor unit further executes the computer usable program code to receive the live user input from a device in communication with a graphical user interface processor executing on the network data processing system;

and send the live user input from the graphical user interface processor to the interpreter.

20. The data processing system of claim 18, wherein the input generated by the synthetic human is associated with unique identifier identifying the input as being generated by the synthetic human and wherein the live user input replaces the input when the live user input is associated with the unique identifier for the synthetic human.