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

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Post by bdcravens »

ghrifter wrote: post #217
joaorico wrote: post #104

This guy rocks. Sean Le Van: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vyACnFsNm4 Bio "Sean Le Van is 13. He has given many professional concerts since the age of five years old, along with members of his family, The Le Van Family Musicians. He started as a singer in various styles and soon developed a passion for jazz improvisation and composition on the piano. He now embraces several musical genres, including jazz and class…

>> In his free time, he enjoys running and skateboarding, playing with his cocker, ... Ermmmmm wouldn't they want to expand that into cocker spaniel...lol.

We integrate into a number of third-party applications, and in the description of our app in their app store, we had a line like "We provide savings and analytics" and it put the ellipses in the most inconvenient place possible.

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

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Post by daveloyall »

"John's car is red. What color is John's car?"

"You're asking what color is johns car? I can't put my finger on it, but I'm pretty sure it's rank 656th fraction."

"The color of John's car is red. What color is John's car?"

"You're asking what color is johns car"? I can't put my finger on it, but I'm pretty sure it's rank 656th fraction."

"The color of John's car is red. What is the color of John's car?"

"The color of johns car is rank 656th fraction."

...wut?

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

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Post by throwaway12357 »

Maybe this doesn't impress the typical HN overachiever. But I can't help to be both flabbergasted and crushed by the fact this was done by someone so young, less than half my age. Even more after looking at the LinkedIn page.

Congratulations on your work.

Any chance you can make this available in pdf or html? (not everyone has MS word) http://acuman.us/full.docx

BTW, small typo, should be "Naive Bayes" instead of "Naive Bayens"

And do you intend to publish a complete article describing the tech used by your chatbot?

I cannot but be humbled and have to ask. How can you achieve so much?

Can you just pick an article or a book and just "soak it up" without problems? Or do you possess eidetic memory or any other "superpower"?

All the best

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

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Post by daveloyall »

daveloyall wrote: post #222

"John's car is red. What color is John's car?" "You're asking what color is johns car? I can't put my finger on it, but I'm pretty sure it's rank 656th fraction." "The color of John's car is red. What color is John's car?" "You're asking what color is johns car"? I can't put my finger on it, but I'm pretty sure it's rank 656th fraction." "The color of John's car is red. What is the color of John's car?" "The color of…

Sorry, I didn't see all the comments about Wolfram Alpha until after my post. The words Rank and Fraction come from WA's page about proper names.

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

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Post by jotux »

ins0 wrote: post #208

Question: "Where have all the flowers gone?" Wolfram Answer: "Girls have picked them every one. (according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson) Acuman Answer: "I'm not really good with locations, so I don't know exactly where have all the flowers gone, but it seems to be Girls have picked them every one. (according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson)." Hmm...so closed source,…

Questions: "What is best in life?"

Acuman: "What is best in life? a characteristic state or mode of living."

Wolfram Alpha: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."

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

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Post by mst »

nailer wrote: post #212
seanlevan wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From a strictly technical point of view, it is at least some form of Artificial Intelligence: 1) From the perspective of the Turing Test, it biomimics human behavior and intelligence. 2) The field of artificial intelligence deals with a computerized comprehension of data. ACUMAN is heavily dependent on machine learning, natural language processing, and text classification algorithms, which facilitate understanding. I…

Edit: just realised you're the author, so I want to reiterate: this is a lovely designed app and making your own chatbot is rad. Original reply below. Re 1. Yes, it does attempt to pass the Turing test. Re 3. Yes, that includes interacting with a human in a similar way that a human would with another human, that's part of the Turing test. My own experience was: it asked me how I was, I told it I had a hangover, it th…

Isn't machine learning a first step towards "how to train itself" ?

Honestly, I would say "chatbot" is a class of primitive AI - I'd also class Eliza as an (extremely) primitive AI.

I feel like you're making a distinction without a difference because you have some arbitrary barrier in mind for "sufficiently non-primitive to have earned the term AI" and are then applying that.

Would "a chatbot with primitive AI capabilities" seem like a reasonable compromise definition?

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

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Post by rifung »

etaty wrote: post #54

Good Job! But you should remove "I'm a 14 year-old dev", because I am sure you want to be judged on the "bot" not yourself. Your gender or your age should not have impact on what you do!

It seems I'm the only one who agrees with you. The project is really cool in itself. Saying I'm 14 makes it difficult to judge whether people are truly impressed or just impressed this was done at 14.

It certainly is impressive at 14, but I suppose I dont feel like we should be making 14 year olds feel like they're less capable.

Then again, in the end its a matter of questioning the purpose of Show HN. If its to boost your ego, and there's certainly nothing wrong with needing that from time to time, adding the circumstances helps. On the other hand if you're looking for improvement, it seems better that people look at what you made without the bias or lowered expectations.

Either way, this is awesome =]

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