Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot

Post by seanlevan » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 1:18 PM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #165

seanlevan wrote: post #155

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That's the interesting thing- I am not, unlike most chatterbot projects, using existing technologies and jumbling it together- a quick glance at the "read more" page on the technologies of ACUMAN will tell you otherwise. Everything is made from scratch. From the ground-up. I could have used AIML (the AI version of XML), or anything I wanted. But instead, to make it unique and customizable to the demand of this projec…

Right, that's much more interesting, especially making your own markup. Did you read extensively and decide that AIML and friends were not really suitable and hence you had to make your own, or did you make your own because you wanted to get a feel for the problem domain before trying to take advantage of the work others have done? ... doubt that we are anywhere near a flawless piece of artificial intelligence softwa…

Post by SideburnsOfDoom » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 1:20 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #153

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #124

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If we are talking about descriptive linguistics "analyzing and describing how language is actually used" as opposed to formal rules ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description ), then we must also love how the way that I use the English language differs from the way that you use it. And how my well-documented variant works too, and why they differ. I don't use "unique" that way. Do you want "unique" to be j…

The thing with "descriptive" is that it's not about what you or I "want". Nor are there "multiple languages". There's one language and in that language, unique IS used that way by some (most) people. The cat's out of the bag.

Post by jmilloy » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 1:26 PM UTC

seanlevan wrote: post #168

jmilloy wrote: post #164

Well done! In nearly all of my exchanges with ACUMAN, the bot responds in the negative. I assert something, and ACUMAN simply disagrees, which prevents any requirement for meaningful discourse. Any insights into why this is the case? Is this an explicit choice? Or maybe it just a coincidence that I got so many of these responses?

Thank you. I believe that it must be a coincidence, or a way in which it deems an appropriate manner to react to your mood/state. Do you have any specific case examples that are particularly off-putting?

Post by zk00006 » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 1:33 PM UTC

seanlevan wrote: post #111

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Can you tell more about you? I cannot imagine how 14-year-old can build stuff like this.

Thank you! I've began developing web applications at the age 9, and would always try to build startups that would mimic famous ones and try to compete with them. What has driven me this far is mere passion.

Post by ColinWright » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 1:37 PM UTC

seanlevan wrote: post #172

ColinWright wrote: post #165

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Right, that's much more interesting, especially making your own markup. Did you read extensively and decide that AIML and friends were not really suitable and hence you had to make your own, or did you make your own because you wanted to get a feel for the problem domain before trying to take advantage of the work others have done? ... doubt that we are anywhere near a flawless piece of artificial intelligence softwa…

Thank you for expressing interest. You are correct, there are some issues that may be encountered with Firefox, particularly in a non-OS X or non-Windows environment. I am currently working on fixing those bugs. Here is the URL: http://acuman.us/readmore.php I decided that AIML was not useful to me because it was too rigid in syntax and was too static. This is particularly in the manner in which most AIML interpreter…