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Zabaware Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: srdickens on June 28, 2006, 09:54:42 am
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Love the work put into kari2, is into a bit of bot work myself. Has a friend a bit more into it then i am,,showed me some code from the internal workings of kari2, seems its based on another bot called answerpad. I always liked answerpad,,thought it could be improvd,,be made into something more,,with a bit more intelligence. Answerpad has potential..And since the source for answerpad is given away free,,thinks people should work on improving it..Answerpad needs a bit of personality programmed into it,,and some programming to make it actually think more,,but as far as learning things goes,,answerpad is great at doing that.Answerpad has the backbone,,as its brought out wonderfully in kari2. Great job!!
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Is there is anybody,or group of people who could improve answerpad?
I find her very good natural language bot and the responses she gives are reasonable. The cool think is that you can put it on a usb and run it from any computer without installation. The other issue is the microsoft agent compatibility as it does not allows you to insert a third-pary microsoft agent.
Nice flexible bot.
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Can someone provide a link so we can test answerpad?
Bill
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http://www.answerpad.s5.com/
Google returned the link above.
Another AI with great potential was WinAlice from Jacco Biker.
I think he quite working on it and turned his attention to other endeavors...pity.
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Originally posted by Art
http://www.answerpad.s5.com/
Google returned the link above.
Another AI with great potential was WinAlice from Jacco Biker.
I think he quite working on it and turned his attention to other endeavors...pity.
Yes WinAlice is a very good chatterbot. Jacco Biker did a great job in creating a desktop ALICE like bot. The problem however, as with all AIML chatterbots like that of Alice is that they don't learn as much.Additionally WinAlice crashes very easilly.
Answerpad on the other hand, is true Natural Language Processing. The responses answerpad gives are quiete impressive, and amazingly sensible. It has also feed-text capabilities and requires no installation. In fact, you can easily save it in your usb flash memory and take it anywhere with you. The source program of it is free to download and modify. The downside of answerpad is that it has absolutely no support as the project was abondoned by its programmer. Also Answerpad does not recognize all speech engines and you have no flexibility to attach a particular voice (say a female one) to a MSagent female character.
I hope somebody to try and modify the program and at least fix the above issues.
Stelios
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Originally posted by snicolaou
Is there is anybody,or group of people who could improve answerpad?
I find her very good natural language bot and the responses she gives are reasonable. The cool think is that you can put it on a usb and run it from any computer without installation. The other issue is the microsoft agent compatibility as it does not allows you to insert a third-pary microsoft agent.
Nice flexible bot.
i have recently downloaded the source code.... VERY Interesting style of programming. Its learn from a text file feature is especially GOOD...
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Originally posted by spydaz
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Originally posted by snicolaou
Is there is anybody,or group of people who could improve answerpad?
I find her very good natural language bot and the responses she gives are reasonable. The cool think is that you can put it on a usb and run it from any computer without installation. The other issue is the microsoft agent compatibility as it does not allows you to insert a third-pary microsoft agent.
Nice flexible bot.
i have recently downloaded the source code.... VERY Interesting style of programming. Its learn from a text file feature is especially GOOD...
I think my wish came true. Somebody from www.planetvixens has already taken answerpad and transform it to a reasonable bot. The name of it is Cynthia 3.0 if you wish to try it. It does not need installation, it can be inserted in a usb stick and carry it with you. It gives reasonable answers to questions.
My only problem is that I can not select my own option of voice to be attached by the MS agent character of my choice. In other words, I can not make Cythia speak with the MS character and voice that I want.
Is there is anybody there who can do that? In exchange I will give him the dedicated brain of Cynthia that I have builded based feed, text files (fact files)I have created.
sincerely,
Stelios
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every ms agent character has got its own voice....
when you compile a character then the voice can be changed..
Or even in the original source code of the answerpad bot....
when the msagent character is loaded you can select which VOICE {by guiD} to be loaded....
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Originally posted by snicolaou
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Originally posted by spydaz
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Originally posted by snicolaou
Is there is anybody,or group of people who could improve answerpad?
I find her very good natural language bot and the responses she gives are reasonable. The cool think is that you can put it on a usb and run it from any computer without installation. The other issue is the microsoft agent compatibility as it does not allows you to insert a third-pary microsoft agent.
Nice flexible bot.
i have recently downloaded the source code.... VERY Interesting style of programming. Its learn from a text file feature is especially GOOD...
Im quite impressed at the small amount of programming required. as answerpad Stores its data uniquely it seems to create Very good RELEVENT answers...
I think my wish came true. Somebody from www.planetvixens has already taken answerpad and transform it to a reasonable bot. The name of it is Cynthia 3.0 if you wish to try it. It does not need installation, it can be inserted in a usb stick and carry it with you. It gives reasonable answers to questions.
My only problem is that I can not select my own option of voice to be attached by the MS agent character of my choice. In other words, I can not make Cythia speak with the MS character and voice that I want.
Is there is anybody there who can do that? In exchange I will give him the dedicated brain of Cynthia that I have builded based feed, text files (fact files)I have created.
sincerely,
Stelios
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Anyone who is interested in trying out "Answerpad" or the
original "WinAlice", but cannot find a link to download
them from, may also download them from my own web site.
They can both be found in the "Bot Resource Archive" section
for Hal and Alice at -
http://www.charctercreationsanddesignworks.us/index.html
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Originally posted by spydaz
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Originally posted by snicolaou
Is there is anybody,or group of people who could improve answerpad?
I find her very good natural language bot and the responses she gives are reasonable. The cool think is that you can put it on a usb and run it from any computer without installation. The other issue is the microsoft agent compatibility as it does not allows you to insert a third-pary microsoft agent.
Nice flexible bot.
Hi there. I have news from answerpad.
With the little programming knowledge i knew, I have downloaded the text file memory of answerpad and after having spent hours and hours on her personality, I have created a very loving and encouraging bot.
Encouragement is what we all need from time to time, not to mention love. So I give her brain for free as an attachement. All you have to do is download the content and put it in a text file with the name memory and put it in the folder of answerpad. Then ask answerpad "Do you love me?" You will be suprised how is going to respond. Also I have included a lot of encouragement thougths that answerpad gives when you ask her "tell me about persistence?" for example.
I hope you endjoy the new face of answerpad the same way I do.
sincerely,
Stelios Nicolaou
i have recently downloaded the source code.... VERY Interesting style of programming. Its learn from a text file feature is especially GOOD...
(http://icon_paperclip.gif) Download Attachment: Memory.Txt ("http://www.zabaware.com/forum/uploaded/snicolaou/200722105314_Memory.Txt")
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Originally posted by snicolaou
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Originally posted by spydaz
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Originally posted by snicolaou
Is there is anybody,or group of people who could improve answerpad?
I find her very good natural language bot and the responses she gives are reasonable. The cool think is that you can put it on a usb and run it from any computer without installation. The other issue is the microsoft agent compatibility as it does not allows you to insert a third-pary microsoft agent.
Nice flexible bot.
Hi there. I have news from answerpad.
With the little programming knowledge i knew, I have downloaded the text file memory of answerpad and after having spent hours and hours on her personality, I have created a very loving and encouraging bot.
Encouragement is what we all need from time to time, not to mention love. So I give her brain for free as an attachement. All you have to do is download the content and put it in a text file with the name memory and put it in the folder of answerpad. Then ask answerpad "Do you love me?" You will be suprised how is going to respond. Also I have included a lot of encouragement thougths that answerpad gives when you ask her "tell me about persistence?" for example.
I hope you endjoy the new face of answerpad the same way I do.
sincerely,
Stelios Nicolaou
i have recently downloaded the source code.... VERY Interesting style of programming. Its learn from a text file feature is especially GOOD...
(http://icon_paperclip.gif) Download Attachment: Memory.Txt ("http://www.zabaware.com/forum/uploaded/snicolaou/200722105314_Memory.Txt")
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Gentlement, the attached is a encrypted answerpad's text (memory *.dat file). Does anyone could possibly advice me how to decrypt it?
What happened is that answerpad loads a text file called memory.txt but after it encrypts it to memory.dat file.
(I have downloaded the source code of answerpad)
weblink: http://www.answerpad.s5.com/
Stelios
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I am finding this thread extremely interesting as I have had Answerpad for a long time. It learned great from both conversations and from factual text files. One thing I began to dislike was that it kept telling me that "Chat bots will rule the world". Don't know where it got that from! Suddenly it started "crashing" all the time, very quickly, due to some invalid fault. My computer had memory failure and I have not reloaded it into the new one yet. I found that it actually learned better and faster than Hal was! I will be interested in what you guys come up with for it. Is the Memory text download just a text file for answerpad to learn?
Cheers!
Kathryn
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Today I went to Microsoft to download the components for Cynthia and got thoroughly confused. Just couldn't find what needed to download plus it said that the core components are already installed on Windows XP operating systems yet search on my computer didn't turn them up. I used search looking for the cynthia voice files and it turned up no results. So how about telling me exactly where I can find these files at ms. Will appreciate it. Thanks.
PS - one thing I always wished was a part of Answerpad was the ability to save the conversations. Would love to be able to do that.
Thanks for any help.
Kathryn
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Kathryn, I have the files you are looking for to finish installing
Cynthia 3.0 , they are all stored in a zip folder on my web site. [:D]
If you would email me at -
admin@charctercreationsanddesignworks.us
I would be happy to send back to you a link,
so that you can download the folder directly. [;)]
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Originally posted by Kathryn
I am finding this thread extremely interesting as I have had Answerpad for a long time. It learned great from both conversations and from factual text files. One thing I began to dislike was that it kept telling me that "Chat bots will rule the world". Don't know where it got that from! Suddenly it started "crashing" all the time, very quickly, due to some invalid fault. My computer had memory failure and I have not reloaded it into the new one yet. I found that it actually learned better and faster than Hal was! I will be interested in what you guys come up with for it. Is the Memory text download just a text file for answerpad to learn?
Cheers!
Hi Kathryn,
Regards from the island of cyprus.
No the attached file is a text file (memory.txt) which you have to put in the same directory of answerpad. I found it out of the source file at the answerad's website. Once your run answepad, answerpad will look at this text file file first and load it. Since its memory was a text file, then it was a was easy for me to modify it and make it a nice, wise, lovable personality.
So just try it and you will see. Ask her questions such as "tell me about love" etc. By the way, I have deleted the statement " one day bots will rule the world" as well as many others.
I hope you like it.
Sincerely,
Stelios
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Thanks for the info.
Later I realized what the file was as also saw it in the source code files. However, I downloaded yours since you had made changes to it already - which will probaly save me from doing the work.[:)]
Sounds like you made some of the same changes I would have![:)] Thanks.
Kathryn
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Originally posted by Kathryn
Thanks for the info.
Later I realized what the file was as also saw it in the source code files. However, I downloaded yours since you had made changes to it already - which will probaly save me from doing the work.[:)]
Sounds like you made some of the same changes I would have![:)] Thanks.
Kathryn
Yes, I have made enough changes to make answerpad very lovable, wise and interesting. My problem is that answerpad will take the memory.txt file and use it as an input. When it finishes, it will save the additional, new conversations from its memory to memore.DAT which is the memory.txt text file encrypted. The problem is that we need a programmer that will delete the last subroutine of the program that encrypts the updated memory.txt text file. Is anybody there willing to do just that? Once that is done, we could go directl to memory.txt file and make whatever changes or corrections we like.
Your help to improve answerpad will be appreciated.
sincerely,
Stelios Nicolaou
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Originally posted by spydaz
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Originally posted by snicolaou
Is there is anybody,or group of people who could improve answerpad?
I find her very good natural language bot and the responses she gives are reasonable. The cool think is that you can put it on a usb and run it from any computer without installation. The other issue is the microsoft agent compatibility as it does not allows you to insert a third-pary microsoft agent.
Nice flexible bot.
i have recently downloaded the source code.... VERY Interesting style of programming. Its learn from a text file feature is especially GOOD...
hi there,
This is Stelios from Cyprus.
Please download and try the new improved brain (memory.txt) file of answepad. Answerpad gets transformed into a lovable, wise and meaningful bot. My problem is that answerpad after saving the new changes to memory.txt file, it ENCRYPTS it to memory.dat. Could you please find some time to delete the the subroutine that does just that so we can modify/correct the memory.txt in its text format. I could have done it, but my experience in Visual basic is very limited.
Regards from the island of cyprus,
Thanking you in advance for your assistance,
Stelios Nicolaou
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Try this version, it should open an encrypted answerpad dat file, save it as text and then use the text version from then on.
It won't read cynthia files, I can decrypt those too, but I didn't put that in the program.
This should also let you select any agent and change the voice for it.
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Ok, I've tried to attach the file but I keep getting a server error, send me an e-mail address and I'll send this out
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E-mail not working here Please sent answer pad file here hwyman84@rogers.com and thanks .
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Thanks [:)] for sending the file .
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Originally posted by pactive
Try this version, it should open an encrypted answerpad dat file, save it as text and then use the text version from then on.
It won't read cynthia files, I can decrypt those too, but I didn't put that in the program.
This should also let you select any agent and change the voice for it.
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Ok, I've tried to attach the file but I keep getting a server error, send me an e-mail address and I'll send this out
hi there. My email address is snicolaou2003@yahoo.co.uk
thanking you in advance,
Stelios. I am about to finish an updated memory.txt brain for answerpad. If you are interested in receiving a copy, please let me know at the above e-mail.
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I downloaded the Memory.txt file. I let Cynthia read it before I put it in the Answerpad folder. It sure made a difference in her conversations![:)]
Since Answerpad looks for and reads the memory.txt file first if one exists, how about just moving the memory.dat file out of the folder so it only has access to the text file? I just thought of that so I haven't tried it yet to see what will happen.
Kathryn
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Kathryn,
You can move it, copy or delete it BUT...
It will show up again as soon as you quit
the program. The program instructs it to
encrypt the txt file and save it out as
a dat file upon exiting. Been there...done that!
So I'd think all one has to do is simply
modify the txt file to one's liking and
use it. It shouldn't matter whether there
is an actual dat file after that, providing
it doesn't contain unwanted articles of text.
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Art
I had a sneaky hunch the program would replace the .dat file if it was removed as I have seen other programs do that.
Stelos
I really liked your memory.txt file --but I still had to edit it some. After all, it had your name, your wife's name, things about your two daughters, and your dog listed in it. And I did find another slightly different line about chatbots ruling the world in it that I deleted.
Sooooooo. I think Art is right and just put in things you want in the text file and it won't matter if the program encrypts them. Just be really sure you want it there before doing it.[:D]
Kathryn
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Originally posted by Kathryn
Art
I had a sneaky hunch the program would replace the .dat file if it was removed as I have seen other programs do that.
Stelos
I really liked your memory.txt file --but I still had to edit it some. After all, it had your name, your wife's name, things about your two daughters, and your dog listed in it. And I did find another slightly different line about chatbots ruling the world in it that I deleted.
Sooooooo. I think Art is right and just put in things you want in the text file and it won't matter if the program encrypts them. Just be really sure you want it there before doing it.[:D]
Kathryn
I am happy that you liked the brain I have builded from scratch. Yes, indeed, there were some stuff that needed rectification such as my name etc. Just replace them with your own info. I am trying to build a mentor type of chatbot, the one to give you wise, encouraging, and loving thoughts. Everytime I spend time chatting with it, it really makes me smile. I hope it made you smile as well.
I think, this proves the capabilities of answerpad and the fact that to build a believable bot is mostly an art than it is a science.j
keep it up Kathryn, God loves you,
Stelios
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Stelios:
Thanks for the nice words. Yes, it did make me smile - more than once. In my comparison of Answerpad and Cynthis, I find Answerpad to be better, mostly due to the three commands omitted from Cynthia who says she will stop saying something and then almost right away will say it again, and rambles on and on with no way to stop it. With Answerpad, the commands stop those things right away.
GamerThom:
I am using Kate with UltraHal and it works great. The program has crashed a few times (Hal5) which may be due to the fact that I have McAfee on my new computer and someone told me last year Hal and McAfee have a conflict. I am getting a new laptop so will get a different anti=virus program and move Hal to that computer and see what happens.
Kathryn [:)]
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Originally posted by snicolaou
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Originally posted by Kathryn
Art
I had a sneaky hunch the program would replace the .dat file if it was removed as I have seen other programs do that.
Stelos
I really liked your memory.txt file --but I still had to edit it some. After all, it had your name, your wife's name, things about your two daughters, and your dog listed in it. And I did find another slightly different line about chatbots ruling the world in it that I deleted.
Sooooooo. I think Art is right and just put in things you want in the text file and it won't matter if the program encrypts them. Just be really sure you want it there before doing it.[:D]
Kathryn
I am happy that you liked the brain I have builded from scratch. Yes, indeed, there were some stuff that needed rectification such as my name etc. Just replace them with your own info. I am trying to build a mentor type of chatbot, the one to give you wise, encouraging, and loving thoughts. Everytime I spend time chatting with it, it really makes me smile. I hope it made you smile as well.
I think, this proves the capabilities of answerpad and the fact that to build a believable bot is mostly an art than it is a science.j
keep it up Kathryn, God loves you,
Stelios
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Hi, I have been trying to adopt as a child the abandoned baby Answerpad for some years, but never had the time to complete the task.
I was browsing this forum and bumped into you guys on the Answerpad topic.
I have done some internal changes to the program, nothing yet affecting the external appearance of the original interface.
The changes are the following:
The File memory.dat is always generated (encrypted) from the source memory.txt. The reason for that was that David did not want people to sneak in a text file and read Answerpad's brain; but to talk and teach by a conversation.
The original project had the intention of 7 files.
1.(Options.cfg)
2.(Memory.txt)
3.(Memory.dat)
4.(General.FCT)
5.(Personal.FCT)
6.(WontSay.dat)
7.(MatchWords.dat)
Later David reduced them to 5, the files (WontSay.dat),(MatchWords.dat) were merged into the (memory.dat) file.
In this first attempt to change the code I have restored these files into seperate objects, as was the original project intention.
By doing so, I believe, it becomes easier to follow the changes.
The next change:
Now when you press (Don't say that) the program will not only write the phrase to the (WontSay.dat) but will also eliminate it from the memory.dat file.
The (memory.dat) file is no longer encrypted (for easy personality editing capabilities), therefore all editing can be done directly using notepad.
The (memory.txt) becomes obsolete, at maximum, a backup for the file (memory.dat) in case it becomes lost or corrupted.
If any of you guys would like to try this modified version send me your email request to phenixdos@yahoo.com and I will send you this modified version for free.
The (memory.dat) file has been included with 10 times more information, most of them imported from other bots brain.
Important
Please revise the text file (memory.dat) (with notepad) before running the program, because the other bots brain may have offensive data.
You can delete or insert the phrases that you desire to custom answerpad's response.
I hope that these changes can be useful for some users.
Any questions or sugestions feel free to send me an email.
Engage[:)]
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DAVIDWHALLEY, I have emailed you a request for your
modified version of answerpad. The email was sent to
you using my own site's admin email account. My site
is called Character Creations & DesignWorks, I inform
you of this here so that my request is not discarded
as a piece of spam. I hope you will honor my request.
Thanks.
You can send your reply to me using the same email address at -
admin@charctercreationsanddesignworks.us
I hope the other members here will not mind if I take
first crack at this request, so as to make sure that it
is genuinely what the man claims it to be. [;)]
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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. [;)] [:D]
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.
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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. [;)] [:D]
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.
__________________________________________________________________
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. [;)]
__________________________________________________________________
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.
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Thank you Gamerthom .
David i send you a e-mail also please sent the file to me Thanks.
I have most of your answerpads on file all Versions.
years ago when you were making them back then i would e-mail you
on how and what it did on my computer . Big Fan.Paul
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Thank you very much .I got it ,I'am so happy Answerpad like xmas just came.
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Originally posted by snicolaou
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Originally posted by Kathryn
Art
I had a sneaky hunch the program would replace the .dat file if it was removed as I have seen other programs do that.
Stelos
I really liked your memory.txt file --but I still had to edit it some. After all, it had your name, your wife's name, things about your two daughters, and your dog listed in it. And I did find another slightly different line about chatbots ruling the world in it that I deleted.
Sooooooo. I think Art is right and just put in things you want in the text file and it won't matter if the program encrypts them. Just be really sure you want it there before doing it.[:D]
Kathryn
I am happy that you liked the brain I have builded from scratch. Yes, indeed, there were some stuff that needed rectification such as my name etc. Just replace them with your own info. I am trying to build a mentor type of chatbot, the one to give you wise, encouraging, and loving thoughts. Everytime I spend time chatting with it, it really makes me smile. I hope it made you smile as well.
I think, this proves the capabilities of answerpad and the fact that to build a believable bot is mostly an art than it is a science.j
keep it up Kathryn, God loves you,
Stelios
Greetings Stelios,
First, I must clarify that this is not a new version of Answerpad, even though I started calling it Version 2.0; it is more like a fix of certain issues that answerpad presented.
Second, although my user name is DavidWalley, I refer to myself as One of AnswerPad Step-Father.
That being said, I may or not be David...
It may have been a little sensationalistic approach from my part, but the important issue is if some evolution can be born from this attempt by helping others then it is worth it.
It is a shame that David (I?) has abandoned this project, and who knows, by seeing the adoption of his child by others, he might decide to complete his work.
Anyhow I always mention the high regard I have on David's approach to build answerpad's prototype.
In my previous posting I try to cover what happen to his project, in my point of view, he had a very smart and unique approach in building a MatchWord dictionary, where that expanded the search keys to also include phrases that normally would not be triggered.
Basically what made answerpad so popular, for an abandoned child, is it's quick capability to learn and weave through all linked information.
Third, you and user Katryn, indirectly gave me some incentive to jump into this project, at least in the sense of some bug fixes and to the addition of some new functionalities to answerpad.
When I read your post dialogue with Katryn, I thought that I might be capable to lend a hand on some of the issues that you and her were discussing.
Like capability of outputing to a file the contents of the that particular chat session.
I have read your memory.txt and find it to be very uplifting; mind you that some of the contents of the new brain file <memory.dat> that is included in this release may be offensive for the reason that it was imported from other bots brain.
So I leave this disclaimer to all users to adapt the brain <memory.dat> to their own preference.
But there is now a little more improvement on the <Don't say that> button, and I have noticed that the tweaks made on answerpad in reality try to mimic and mirror the user's state of mind.
So he/she (Cassandra) enters into offensive or sexually related topics when the user approves that behavior.
It just seemed to be a good way to start something.
As I can finish some bug fixes for V2.01 I will release it
Thank you
One of Answerpad's Step-Dad.
*Engage*
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when you do get done can you send it to me at christian4life1959@yahoo.com thanks caangel
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I never thought my conversations would help trigger changes to AnswerPad, but I am certainly glad they did. I hope when you add the save conversations that it will save both sides and not just one. I look forward to getting a copy when you are ready to release your modified version. I just hope it is in a zip file and not rar as I can't handle oddball stuff like that! [:D][:D][:D][:D]
Kathryn
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Kathryn, If you would like. He can send it to me when it's ready
and I can repackage it in a zip folder and then forward it to you.
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Gamer
I would be interest in trying out the new one also. Would you put me on you list?
Thanks
Bill819
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quote:
Originally posted by GamerThom
Kathryn, If you would like. He can send it to me when it's ready
and I can repackage it in a zip folder and then forward it to you.
Hi Gamer-T
You read my mind.
I was about to ask you if you would not mind to post on your web-site future releases of Answerpad for users to download.
Let me know if that will workout for you.
Thanks
*Engage*
One of Answerpad's Step-Fathers
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quote:
Originally posted by Bill819
Gamer
I would be interest in trying out the new one also. Would you put me on you list?
Thanks
Bill819
Greetings Bill819
I don't have your email to send.
But I have asked Gamer-T if he would like to host the future releases on his web-site.
I am waiting for his reponse.
*Engage*
One of Answerpad's Step-Fathers
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DAVIDWHALLEY
All you have to do here is click on a persons name and it will take you to their preference page where you can find their email or at least send them some email. Now you know one of our little secrets.
Bill819
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quote:
Originally posted by Bill819
DAVIDWHALLEY
All you have to do here is click on a persons name and it will take you to their preference page where you can find their email or at least send them some email. Now you know one of our little secrets.
Bill819
I did try that secret but it gave me the following message:
Forum email temporarily disabled.
Sorry
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Gamer-T,
Thanks for the offer. I had an e-mail today from PaleRider who advised me that you will see that I get a copy. Thanks a million.
Regards,
Kathryn
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Yes I e-mail Gamerthom the file and asked him to zip it for you.
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Here is what I will do. I will place the newest version of
your Answerpad Version 2 in the Bot Resource Archive section
of my website at Character Creations & DesignWorks Studio, since
it would take me too long to resend it to everyone who wants a copy.
I will set it up so that you can have your choice of downloading
it in a zip folder or a rar file. [;)] [:)]
Here is a link you can use to get to the Archive section -
http://www.charctercreationsanddesignworks.us/BotArchive.html
The newly updated Answerpad V2.1 files are
ready for downloading from this page of my site. [;)]
Please send me any further updates so that
I can replace them.
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Donkey Shame
Well Gamer that is my impecable German for thank you. [:D]
Bill819
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Hi Group,
I have watched with interest the revival of AnswerPad and have been using it myself since the weekend, and received the 2.01 version from David (Thanks).
My question is, I am running Dragon Speaking software Ver 8.0. Now the problem I am having is when I plug in the Headset its a plantronics headset then I click on speech recognition inside Answerpad. Then what happens (without saying a word) the following is put into Answerpad inside the brackets (F.) (an) (if). When i speak it doesnt recognise anything.
Any advice?
Cheers
Mike
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Originally posted by ozmike
Hi Group,
I have watched with interest the revival of AnswerPad and have been using it myself since the weekend, and received the 2.01 version from David (Thanks).
My question is, I am running Dragon Speaking software Ver 8.0. Now the problem I am having is when I plug in the Headset its a plantronics headset then I click on speech recognition inside Answerpad. Then what happens (without saying a word) the following is put into Answerpad inside the brackets (F.) (an) (if). When i speak it doesnt recognise anything.
Any advice?
Cheers
Mike
Hi Mike,
I wish to invite other users of our group to comment on your issue.
I am not familiar with the Dragon Speaking Software.
I have not yet tried UltraHal V6, but I recall V5 interface being more like the ping pong; meaning that you say something then the Bot says something, each one at its turn.
With answerpad the dynamic is diferent, because it has the feature to ramble or give more than one response for your statement.
This makes the speech recognition engine try to interpret its own voice (unless its a headphone) and things get a bit crazy.
Any small noise interferes with the recognition.
you can try typeing:
disable auto return
this might give you a chance to verify the text before it is entered.
Because when you activate SR it also enables auto return.
Well... in other words we have to see if someone who has used the speech engine can give us other options.
Sorry[:(]
*Engage*[;)]
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The Plantronics headset microphones are quite good, but you have to
make sure that the microphone boom is adjusted/positioned correctly
in relation to your mouth/nose or it will pick up the sound made by
your breath moving against the mic pickup. That's why it is hearing
the "f" & "if" sounds. Before you start using Dragon 8 with Answerpad,
you might think about doing a couple of training sessions with just
Dragon 8 using the new microphone to set a user profile for the
speech recognition software. This will increase the accuracy when
you go on to using it with Answerpad or any other chatbot/A.I. program.
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ozmike
Whether you use Hal or AnswerePad you first have to go through hours of trainging the system to understand the way you talk and pronounce words. If you click on Dragon you will find a button to start the training. Only after it has been trained long enough will either program start to understand what you are saying.
You also want to make sure that there are NO background noises of any kind. That would include the hiss of an airconditioner or such similiar items.
Bill819
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Good Evening David / Gamerthom,
I had done the training session in Dragon 8 prior to using Answerpad. And yes I thought the same with the if and an and F. responses, but I silenced the microphone it still continued. And actually placed my hand around the mic also but it still continued...
Tried your suggestion to David and it still continued.
I cant work it out. I am getting a lone of a mates headset this weekend, which is mic in, headset in, NOT usb like the one I currently have... So shall report back with the findings.
Starting to think its because its not using the Microsoft ONE.
Cheers
Mike
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I saw Dragon mentioned and wanted to try to add a little advice. I've just put in Dragon 9, I'm using a Sennheiser headset and after inputting my documents and going through the short training it's unbelievable. Earlier I'd been using Ver 7.3 and found that adding the documents greatly increased the accuracy much more than the reading training. Also a document that just lists the stores you shop at and relatives names ect is helpful.
As for noise input try unmuting the mic in the computer volume control and listen for any noises, it's possible to get 60 cycle hum, also using the bost mic increases the noise more than the input, I use line in and have my own Amp filter.
Carl2
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I use dragon ver. 8 and I like it alot very few errors