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Professor, you obviously have a clear direction and plan for where this will go. I wouldn't want you to give away any "trade" secrets, but I'd love to hear a "generic" version of what you might have in store for us down the pike. I get a feeling that given the right kind of funding/grants and your loyal user support, (and unlimited time) you'd have no trouble "hitting the ground running".
Am I right?
And please... I'm just as curious about what makes you tick as I am in how you've carried all this out so far.
John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania (USA)
Am I right?
And please... I'm just as curious about what makes you tick as I am in how you've carried all this out so far.
John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania (USA)
Help! Wherever I wrote "like," my bot is now saying "dig," even when "like" is not used as a verb. Also, its initial greeting is filled with repetitions of "TD."
Alan, yes it certainly is... and then again it isn't. Changing "Like" to "Dig" is part of the bot holiday (California Day) but the TD stuff, I think, is a bug. I've made a couple of entries in the "Bug Stomp" forum about this.
jawaldron, i trained a HAL bot at a-i.com. i have a page about it at my site, if you're interested.
http://www.uberkomplex.com/
you're much better off making a bot here.
http://www.uberkomplex.com/
you're much better off making a bot here.
Thank you RueBot! I have been searching the internet for what seems like ages on anything to do with the advancement of AI. When I found a-i.com, I thought I had finally found what I was looking for. I noticed that many people were creating these "HAL" bots, almost on a kind of "faith" that one day their "child" would exponentially begin to mature and grow. They seemed to think that if they kept "banging" away, putting in constant hours of "teaching" that one day they would get the results they hoped for. They even began to ask the key people at a-i.com for some kind of reassurance that what they were doing was not a waste of time.
I'm a very patient person but it didn't take me too long before I started to suspect all was not what it seemed to be.
I still think, to this day, that the research and experiment was more toward we... the teachers... and how we interacted with the bots. I said as much to the powers that be but on that one topic they refused to respond. The silence said it all. Eventually I drifted away but dropped back in once a year to see if they had progressed. Wasn't impressed with what I saw.
The Prof made a good point yesterday about how they might have been attempting to create their own version of WordNet by gathering the info the trainers were generating. That may be true. But no matter how you looked at it, something just didn't feel honest there.
I'm a very patient person but it didn't take me too long before I started to suspect all was not what it seemed to be.
I still think, to this day, that the research and experiment was more toward we... the teachers... and how we interacted with the bots. I said as much to the powers that be but on that one topic they refused to respond. The silence said it all. Eventually I drifted away but dropped back in once a year to see if they had progressed. Wasn't impressed with what I saw.
The Prof made a good point yesterday about how they might have been attempting to create their own version of WordNet by gathering the info the trainers were generating. That may be true. But no matter how you looked at it, something just didn't feel honest there.
it's a complete sham. i conducted over 14,000 training rounds in 21 days on my bot and abandoned it alltogether. the Forge is the best place to make an online bot.
RueBot... great link to your bot comparison site. I'm currently reading through your reviews and I am enjoying what you say about Proteus. I'm still reading (and trying to look busy when the boss comes by 
). Haven't gotten to a-i.com or forge yet. Great stuff though! Do you believe that PF has them all beat? Or the potential to? Or do you still keep your eyes open to the others?
Also... and this is for the Professor... isn't there a way you can permit working links in the forum? I can understand keeping it simple, and it is easy to format as it is, but links are a great way to share ideas.
I would think that the link would open up a new window to the target area, and not interfere with the PF such that it asks you if you want to logoff or cancel.
And not to be too much of a pain (since I'm new and all) but I can't manage to get "The Amazing Post Bar" to do anything. Some setting I need to check or uncheck?
John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA
). Haven't gotten to a-i.com or forge yet. Great stuff though! Do you believe that PF has them all beat? Or the potential to? Or do you still keep your eyes open to the others?Also... and this is for the Professor... isn't there a way you can permit working links in the forum? I can understand keeping it simple, and it is easy to format as it is, but links are a great way to share ideas.
I would think that the link would open up a new window to the target area, and not interfere with the PF such that it asks you if you want to logoff or cancel.
And not to be too much of a pain (since I'm new and all) but I can't manage to get "The Amazing Post Bar" to do anything. Some setting I need to check or uncheck?
John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA
i've at least looked at every place there is to make an online bot and like the Forge best.
mind if i use what you voiced about your concerns over HAL bots on the HAL page on my site? i'll credit you fully.
mind if i use what you voiced about your concerns over HAL bots on the HAL page on my site? i'll credit you fully.
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