Possible AI project ideas:

[snowman]

So I've been building a personal Ai project that might be sellable. Everybody knows that. But in the process it seems I've discovered that there are many directions one could take such a project.

So I decided to create this thread as a think tank on AI projects in general. Not just for me but for everybody interested in this feild of study.

All Ideas welcome, that means you too ONE and LS. []


So, this is like, what would you like Hal to do... only think outside the box...

[snowman]

The link to Autoit is pretty cool and describes a way of completely automating Windows. You can make gui's with it and also use a its DLL in Vbscript do allot of cool stuff. Some of which could be used in HalVision.

That gives any A.I. a reach into all the features of own computer environment. A cool feature that must be utilized!
(Link is at the bottom)

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I've thought of integrating an chatbot Ai with a real physical bot like Mr Data. So someone who bought Hal could also buy a comercial bot like Rovio and it would integrate with it through Wi-Fi.
That would be a cool thing to have with an A.I. The bad thing about that would be the potential cost. Rovio is about 250.00 USD


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I thought about creating an Ai chatbot game (even with Hal) so he will roam around encountering different things (including you) and being alive in his own virtual world.

Then Robert come along and outdid that idea by putting Hal into second life which is totally awsomeness and very interesting... Unfortunately it doesn't give the user much control. But an Ai that lives and survives in its own world equiped with all the aminities would be cooool! And you could ask "how was your day" and he or she would then give you the true encounters of the day... and not some fictitious story.

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Then theres Haptek vrs Ogre stuff, Mac vrs Linux vrs Windows, HalVision with EmguCV, ProtoThinker, WordNet, etc...

Got ideas any ideas?




http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/

[snowman]

Then there's Home Automation... which I'm not really versed in.

And also Car integration... which might be difficult to do, I guess it depends on the car... where's kitt when you need him.[]

I do have a mechanical background so I can see that it would take a tremendous amount of labor.

I've also been thinking about robots and robotic design too.

Buy some servo motors, some usb/servo interfaces, a small laptop, and make a small cart with a good rechargable battery and viola! Hal can now navigate your house, look at you, say "helo" with your choice of Avatars on the laptops screen, and then listen to you give it commands.

[snowman]

I thought about creating a DLL for GUIs that looks good in vista or Windows 7, if its possible. I'd have to learn more first.. it might be easier than I think.


I wonder if I can make a small Gui that would streamline Haptek use... like with no prior coding knowledge needed. All would be made through a user-interface. Not for compressing haptars but for building skits and setting backgrounds and such. a Haptek Movie Maker.


If I do this right it might be included in one of Roberts releases... but for sure one of mine... I hope the Ogre release is just as or more customizable than Haptek.

[snowman]

I have already built a Matrix.Dll than contains my own version of Robert's WordNet only completely different in design... It also contains an easy way of connecting to an Access database, and adding tables, and columns, and all kinds of searching features. There is also a small sentence parser, and another class which contains a way of connecting to the cmd prompt and running vbscripts, and other cool features. Even one that compiles vb code on-the-fly.

I'm building a tutorial program that shows how to use the classes and gives function definitions. It also teaches by showing the Matrix at work.

This little DLL when added to Hal should make Hal's brain be expandable exponentially. For instance, instead of having only certain kinds of predifined tables like Hal currently has, you can now add your own table types and designs as well as your own search features. This will unstop some of Hal's issues. Unless Robert beats me to the punch and adds this feature to a next version of Hal... who knows.

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[snowman]

Has anybody... and I mean you Robert [] considered about a Hal version for a Mobile phone?

[Will and Mr Data :) :]]

i'm a floor sweeper again tomorrow, and the next day,
if something then i get a million bucks,
what is that something?

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[freddy888]

quote:I thought about creating an Ai chatbot game (even with Hal) so he will roam around encountering different things (including you) and being alive in his own virtual world.

Then Robert come along and outdid that idea by putting Hal into second life which is totally awsomeness and very interesting... Unfortunately it doesn't give the user much control. But an Ai that lives and survives in its own world equiped with all the aminities would be cooool! And you could ask "how was your day" and he or she would then give you the true encounters of the day... and not some fictitious story.  

I like this idea - I wonder if you could have some central server with a world of some kind in it, kinda like an MMORPG set up , but for bots and their owners to explore.  I guess that would be a lot of work, maybe utilising Second Life is the more practical route.  Though it might not be that hard to set up a workable world - have you heard of Dark Basic ?  Something like that may help.

quote:I wonder if I can make a small Gui that would streamline Haptek use... like with no prior coding knowledge needed. All would be made through a user-interface. Not for compressing haptars but for building skits and setting backgrounds and such. a Haptek Movie Maker.

I tried something like this a couple of years back but found Haptek animations difficult to work with.  I ran into problems linking animations effectively and a lot of the time they were too jerky for me.  What I had was a slider/timeline which you could move and insert keyframes.  You could also drop in hap files.  Eventually I tired of it and stripped it all down to make my Hap Explorer program.  Maybe you are smarter and can do better..

[lightspeed]

hey snowman i like the idea alot of "instead of having only certain kinds of predifined tables like Hal currently has, you can now add your own table types and designs as well as your own search features."
 that sounds like a great feature well i hope if you do create something it won't have the problem of the skin disapearing when you do work in the brain , that is one thing i have wrote on here that i hope in hals next version will be fixed anytime i have a nice skin with clothes fixed etc. and hal says something wrong and i have to go in to the brain edit it loses my skin and if i redo the skin and accessories over and it happens again i lose it all again .
  the process i have to do is place my skin (drag ) place the 19 hap in , place the remove hap (top remove the other hair , place the angela hair in (drag ) . so each time i have to do any editing etc. i lose all this and have to redo it each time . [B)]

maybe robert will get that fixed  so that in yours would be a good idea (at least i think so ) .

on some things just as with hal where i have a hands on usage i find problems and can come up with some better idea's .

what you are talking about does sound interesting !! [][][8D]

[snowman]

ONE's response has been fowarded to the following link, Thank you for flying ONE's AirLines...

http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6775

[snowman]

I sweep the floor of the Post Office once a day, mop sometimes, carry out the trash, clean the bathrooms...

I feel for you Will.

[snowman]

Freddy, I have DarkBasic Pro and thats were I got the idea. Great mind think alike, ehh!

[snowman]

LS, It sounds like to me that the HapSwap.uhp might be a quick fix for now.

Just set all your settings and skin locations in the HapSwap file and set it to load you stuff whenever you say anything and Voila she dressed.

I know its not as slick as what Robert can do but might be you best option for now.

As for a New Brain, this can be done but it will be better now to have a mix of both Roberts brain and what I'm building. Sort of an aditional brain database for which to do any special stuff that Hal can't currently do.

I have already made the Matrix.Dll and am now perfecting it and also making the tutorial on how to use it. This is only a first version and there maybe several more as I gain more know-how.[]

[jasondude7116]

snowman....
doing real good man.
it's not often that i meet someone as level-headed as you.
keep it up!
-the dude

[NIGE]

Hey, L.S.
Send me all the things you want in your girl & I will put it all together for you.
Then you will not have all the trouble of loading everything all the time.