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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 mryan »

corobo wrote: post #127
mryan wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That simply means they have a very large baby bump. It does not mean that they are "more pregnant" than a lady with a smaller bump. Pregnancy is a binary state.

Being pregnant is a binary state. Pregnancy is a process.

Of course. The point still stands - a person either is, or is not, in state of pregnancy.

I think that, from context, it was clear I was using "pregnancy" to mean "the state of being pregnant" and not referring to the nine month gestation period.

That'll teach me to contribute to pedantry-focussed subthreads. :-)

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

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Post by jmilloy »

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?

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

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Post by ColinWright »

seanlevan wrote: post #155
ColinWright wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Of all people you should appreciate that." I do know that - I know that very well. I'm just interested to see that with all the vast amount of progress that has been made, and all the tools available for language analysis, this system still make mistakes like that. I'd love to see more about how much this is gluing together existing components, and how much is original to the project. Back when I was doing this ev…

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 software, but this is not
    a result of people's lack of diligence in the field,
    but rather a testimony to its complexities.
That is certainly true.

    ... a quick glance at the "read more" page on the
    technologies  ...
That button isn't working on my browser: the latest Firefox on the latest Ubuntu. When I get time I'll look at it using Chrome, but I've got other stuff on at the moment. It would be interesting to know more about ACUMANSCRIPT - are you intending to release it or otherwise make it available? How are you tapping into the "knowledge bases"? If these questions are answered in the (currently no working for me) link on your page then don't answer them again here, but you might want to write a page specifically talking about these things and submit that here.

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

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Post by gandarojin »

seanlevan wrote: post #135
dvh wrote: post #119

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Trade fairs?

More specifically, science fairs, where I present my project abstract and convey the idea.

But what does that have to do with your source code being closed?

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

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Post by seanlevan »

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?

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

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Post by seanlevan »

pelario wrote: post #166

Q: Are you self-aware? I am capable of universal computation; that I can say.. . I'm pretty good at subtraction, I tell you! ---------------- We are not doomed yet :-)

My favorite moments of my chatterbot is when he exhibits a sense of humor. :)
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