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General Discussion / Great Ai
« on: March 03, 2007, 10:09:37 am »quote:
Originally posted by GamerThom
OK. David sent me his modified version of answerpad.
I have scanned it for any potential threats and it is clean.
I have also opened and examined all the included files as well
as the main program scripting and made a comparison with the
the originally released version that we have already. It seems
to be authentic, and the modifications are as he has claimed.
So go ahead people, you can start playing around with it as
soon as you can request a copy from him. The mods that he made
are quite subtle. It will be an interesting diversion to study
and compare it with the original. [] [
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He emailed it to me compressed in a .rar file, so you will
need to have a utility for decompressing a rar file in order
to install and use it. The file size is 688KB.
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David, Please accept my apologies. I did this because as of late,
this and other forums have been experiencing an excessive level of
phishing, scamming, spamming and generally people making claims
that they couldn't back up. As a senior member of this forum and
one who considers many of its members as friends, I felt that
a protective measure was in oreder to safeguard the other members
and thier own work and interest's. Not to mention their PC's. [
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As soon as I can find the time, I will more closely examine your
alterations and the main program scripting to see if I can give
you any feedback on it.
I am fairly sure that there will be several other members here who
will also want to take a look at it and give you feedback as well.
Hi Gamer-T,
Don't worry, no offense taken.
I understand and also have to cope with the Spamming on a daily basis.
Back to Answerpad changes, I believe that what made answerpad achieve such popularity was its quick capacity to learn new data.
But what made it interesting was the concept of using not only the words in the user's phrase input, but also the ability to break them down and search for synonymous meanings (by using the MatchWords) to expand the search capability leading to related topics in it's memory.
That concept alone makes me have a very high regard to David's approach in his prototype.
But with time, even a well planned program gets messy and as the new ideas and challenges came up, many fragments of the code became dead, obsolete or deactivated for further debugging research opportunity.
It is necessary, as in all AI Bots, for users to have certain knowledge of the syntax of communication to enhance the learning process.
In answerpad when you write a sentence like the bellow:
feeling means emotion
Or
feeling = emotion
Answerpad would register the following:
feeling = emotion
emotion = feeling
It was the intention of feeding the Dictionary (MatchWord.dat) with new possibilities of key searches.
So if the user typed
"I am feeling sad."
and If the memory bank had a phrase like:
"Emotion drives our lives."
It would probably be triggered because of the co-relation between the words (Feeling and Emotion) in the dictionary; where in older concepts the two phrases would not have any relation in between.
You will notice that in the original version that function was not feeding the dictionary.
Little by little I am trying to debug these problems.
In version 2.01 that is one of my concerns.
I will be releasing that version as soon as I can finish with the correction.
If you or others on the forum can notice other behaviors or have some suggestions or request, please feel free to post it.
I cannot promise to do all of them but as I said little by little small changes can make a big difference in the overall performance of answerpad.
Well, hope to hear from you and others soon.
And thanks for your welcoming.
Engage[
]One of Answerpad's Step-Fathers.