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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 josephmx »

rifung wrote: post #229
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 boos…

I agree to an extent. For a discussion board, the main focus is the 14 year old which makes the discussion less interesting from a technology viewpoint.

However, for a news article I think that "14 year old made cool thing!" would add to it.

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

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Post by seanlevan »

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,…

I don't get what's new about any of this. I disclosed in this thread in other answers already the APIs I use,

I have yet to know any "intelligent" piece of artificial intelligence software that is not dependent whatsoever on external APIs. (Read: Siri, which is much more dependent on the WolframAlpha API then mine is). To me, it wouldn't be intelligent not to straddle the large resources of data available.

What you posted to, also, was hardcoded in WolframAlpha's system, which is not impressive.

Furthermore, try using WolframAlpha for conversation, and prepare to be disappointed. There's a lot of parsing going on in the backend on my system to make it work.

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

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Post by 01Michael10 »

andrewstuart2 wrote: post #245
ghrifter wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> 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.

> Sean Le Van is 13.

You don't believe him when he says he is 14?

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

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Post by seanlevan »

arihant wrote: post #220

From what I tried, it seems to be working on templates, similar to Eliza. However, in some templates it grabs data from Wolfram Alpha. Very hard to find a non-canned response not coming straight from Alpha. Still, a good project and obviously more APIs can be integrated. Maybe a good next step would be to mine more and dynamically put together templates. Try with simpler synonym directory and see where it goes.

There is a synonym directory programmed, as well as Named-enetity recognition.

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

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Post by seanlevan »

habitue wrote: post #211
primitivesuave wrote: post #8

Whenever I find one of these AI chat programs, I like to start by typing in "this sentence is false", and yours gave me the most unique response (after quite some time calculating): "It seems to be, and it's actually a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language." On a side note - I work in tech education, and I have to say that the software projects that motivated people of your age are creating i…

It seems the answer to "this sentence is false" also comes from Wolfram Alpha, which misunderstands and just gives the definition for "sentence": https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=this+sentence+is+false

My chatterbot received the definition by WolframAlpha, per as what it's programmed. It found the entity was "sentence" and then looked for a definition. It does not simply grab whatever WolframAlpha response it can find.

Evidence for this lies in the fact that for the last hour, WolframAlpha was down for my bot due to excessive requests- and yet, no-one has noticed until this point- proving that there is significantly more to the algorithm then merely scraping their API.

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

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Post by chernevik »

V-2 wrote: post #248
chernevik wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think "most unique" works here, perhaps because I can read "most" as emphasizing the importance of the uniqueness rather than modifying its degree. Pedantry is attention to compliance with usage "rules" rather than the success of the expression.

Not a native speaker here, but that's probably not unlike "the very last", even though being last in and of itself is not gradable :)

Yes.

Your English is far, far better than my command of whatever your native tongue is.

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

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Post by innguest »

chernevik wrote: post #190
SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn't talking about "pregnant" and I personally don't care about it. "Unique" literally means "there is only one". Now where would you insert the word "most" in the sentence "there is only one"?

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

So Humpty Dumpty is a relativist?

"It just means what I choose it to mean" is the basis of Relativism.

Could Humpty Dumpty say "I like ice cream" and mean "atoms are actually divisible"? If not then does that mean your argument is a boatload of crap?

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

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Post by toolsadmin »

Had a lot of fun with it! Great bot. However, not without its stumbles: E.g. "Will good prevail over evil?" >I don't think it will. "Will evil prevail over good?" >I don't think it will. "Will good and evil hold in balance?" >I don't think that it will.
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