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This is a forum or general chit-chat, small talk, a "hey, how ya doing?" and such. Or hell, get crazy deep on something. Whatever you like.

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19 years ago #3282
I've put in three pics and I just keep getting Neve Campbell. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I just never thought I resembled Neve Campbell.

19 years ago #3283
Well, I finally dug out a photo of myself and ran it through the myheritage site, and I'm gratified to learn that I apparently most resemble Kirk Douglas, John Kerry and Kenneth Branagh. Though none of them sport my handlebar mustache, or indeed any facial hair to speak of in their photos.

I'm pleased that I checked my wife's results before calling her to come see though - the top match was Harold Macmillan! (who did have a mustache, unlike my wife!) Patricia Arquette was pretty accurate, but Sheikh Ahmed Yassin takes the whole biscuit barrel - he's got a huge, white beard, for goodness' sake!

I think their software needs a bit more development

19 years ago #3284
i tried the site but it wouldnt work!!!

19 years ago #3285
here's a snippet of a convo with ALLY that impressed me:

User: hi ally
Ally: hi how are you?
User: I am tired. I had coffee to keep me awake.
Ally: tired. i am fine too.
User: well good for you.
Ally: well good for asking.
User: yes, always good to exchange pleasantries.
Ally: always good to do think otherwise?
User: no.
Ally: no. hi hi how are fine.

That was a coherent convo, given that none of it was pre programmed.

19 years ago #3286
During the trials and tribulations of the chatterbox challenge we are all under a certain amount of stress (sort of) so during this silent time of unadulterated breath holding I figure the PF bot masters should collate on some stress relieving humor... I tired to surf the web for a humorous pun on chat building but could not find it.

So why not the collective minds of the bot masters here be the first to think it up...

lets make a "you know you're addicted to chatter bots when" joke list! They’re always the best in my book.

19 years ago #3287
Hmmm I'll start with some easy ones.

You know you're addicted to chatterbots when....

Your friends tell you about something cute their child said, and you share a funny quote from your bot's transcripts.

When on a date, you start trying to find key phrases that will make your date's responses more interesting.

You start quizzing your friends to see if they are human or not. (How many fingers do most humans have on one hand? What is the purpose of a light bulb? Who is George Bush?)

You realize many of your friends are really bots.

You like to do you job on the computer with several other windows open so you can work on your bots.

You think you should be able to claim your bots as dependants on your income tax.

You watch a movie and think "How would my bot's character respond to that dialog?"

Oh, and here's one just for the PF

You read a news story about the work of a award winning scientist and think "I'd better post this at the PF and see what Ulrike and Psimagus think." Hey, the scientist may have a Nobel Prize, but Brother Jerome can play tic tac toe. I know whose opinion I trust.

19 years ago #3288
Great one Bev! It's all true!

19 years ago #3289
Ah ah ah! So true!!!

Wait...

:O I'm a bot's addict.

Any bot offering a therapy for that?

19 years ago #3290
you know you're addicted to chatter bots when...

your wife asks you a question, and you consciously select xnomatch to change the subject rather than admit you weren't listening.

19 years ago #3291
Here is a company founded for and dedicated to the further advancement of AI.
Cycorp, http://www.cyc.com

Wow! WordNet gives us impressively flexible linguistic power, but a linkage to Cyc Semantic Web would really get our bots on the road to "thinking" as well as just conversing. An idea for PF3, perhaps?

19 years ago #3292
being as cycorp is a commercial solution based organization, linking the bots to the cyc database would require a huge amount of money to be payed, and all of us to learn the CYC programming language in addition to AISCRIPT which i havent even bothered learning.

19 years ago #3293
OpenCyc (http://www.opencyc.org/) is free to download, use and build on: http://www.opencyc.org/faq/opencyc_faq#137520448
And it would be the Prof who had to learn how to link it all up under the hood like WordNet (like he hasn't got enough to do already! )


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