Artificial Intelligence chatterbot and NLP (Natural Language Processing)

[Like Ra]

Many, many years ago, before windows and the internet, we had a program called " The Doctor". This old program asked you 1 question, and from there on, got you to open up about your entire life.

I think this is what you meant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

[Like Ra]

AIML turns out much more interesting and more capable than I thought.

http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/pics/...orial.html
http://www.pandorabots.com/botmaster/en/...orial?ch=2

It's getting more addicting. Testing various constructions at the moment 😁

[Tinker D]

Yep, that's the one. I remember it well. Sometimes we played a game with it, we called the loop. The loop was a coding error that would cause the program to into a loop, causing the computer to lock out all users and think forever.

Remember, this was a timeshare HP with a number of teletype machines as terminals. Later, I used the IBM-1130.

[Like Ra]

Yes, you can create loops in AIML too (ELIZA was a LISP based machine, AIML was "invented" later).

In the bot self-learning discussion I've read an interesting and very valid point. Whom do you trust in teaching your bot? It can be easily fed with wrong information, spammed to "death" or to the full web-server crash.

Indeed, whom do you trust in teaching your kids?

[Like Ra]

Just made the AJAX version working somehow. You can try it here: http://www.likera.com/ai/o/gui/jquery/ It still looks a bit awkward (and I have no experience with jQuery yet), but at least there is no page reloading every time you say something.

[Like Ra]

Installed the latest security update. Every program update requires reconfiguring and old/new/updated file juggling. Unfortunately it's not quite straightforward, fortunately the database was not touched.

[Like Ra]

But now I can't connect to the Admin interface. Yeah, perfect security. 😁

[Like Ra]

BTW, AIML is actually quite power full. Say "Hello Miyuki"

[Like Ra]

I'm actively working on the naughty side of Miyuki, but there are some annoying bugs. The good thing is that the program is under active development and one of the authors is the admin of https://www.chatbots.org. The bad things are the bugs (some of which cannot be reproduced in another environment) and that their forum is down for two days aeady.

Update: ah, the Program O forum is back up!

[Like Ra]

Interesting fact. The "original brain" of Miyuki was written by 500 developers during 9 (or something) years. And the "original" character is very sarcastic. I'm not changing much of the original personality of the bot, but mostly add new knowledge and dialogues.

Stay tuned. Or better try to speak with Miyuki from time to time. I need to gather more information on "typical" conversations.