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exProphecy · Posted: Thu 26 Feb 2009, 17:14 Post subject:

WHATT??! Am I getting this right? This is an app for me to have a personal friend that isn't real?? Oh man, thanks! I'll try this soon and let you know how it goes. THANKS I WANTED A ROBOT FRIEND Twisted Evil

MU · Posted: Thu 26 Feb 2009, 17:33 Post subject:

here is an online bot to talk with:
http://lucifer.org/

You also can see there 2 bots having a conversation Laughing

*edit - no that option was deactivated meanwhile Sad

Mark

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1759

I've done quite a lot of work on ainebot -I have an AppDir with several personalities to choose from (menu selection). I have also done some work with special AIML code for it which turns it into a system administration assistant -based on the Charlix AIML. I also fixed some bugs in the ainebot code and got the cgi program working. Here'S a screenshot which shows ainebot running three different ways; as the command line version; using the wxWidgets dialog and running as a cgi program in dillo, which is my favorite:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/amigolinux/images/screenshots/ainebot-screenshot.png

I wish I had more time to fool around with the program as it is really ineteresting -I don't mean having a conversation with it, but broadening the possibilities to what it can do. The Charlix-type interface lets you query the bot about software and in the original version offers to install it for you if not already on your system. The original (Charlix) is pretty heavy and the sysadmin parts are built for use with debian, but I've gotten some of it working. If I had more time and brains I'd try to get it working with text-to-speech and speech recognition. Now that would be something---

Still, the way tha AIML deduces language is very ineteresting itself, and there is plenty of improvement to be had by fooling around with just that, and you don't need to know any *programming* language to work with. although AIML really is a sort of programming language.

Lobster · Posted: Fri 27 Feb 2009, 04:39 Post subject:

Amigo are you going to release an SFS or pet?

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1759

Hmmm, my sources are still in quite a mess except for the AppDir version. But, it is very large as I have included all the aine data files for alice, ann, amy, charlie, charlix, std and whatever else I have translated from the AIML format. With all the data files uncompressed the AppDir is 31MB!. But, today I re-wrote parts of the AppRun script so that the data files can be delivered as tarballs -still included but only decompressed the first time you ask to run a certain personality. This cuts the AppDir down to around 6MB. That's still including the sources and pre-compiled binaries.

If someone is really inetrested I'll send it to them via email, or I'll get around to uploading the AppDir to my site. It would be really nice if someone did take an interest in working on the datafiles -I spent months partially translating a bunch of different AIML data sets, writing tools to help, etc. But, in the end, much of it comes down to hand-work. But it is facinating the way the language processing is done, so maybe a special sort of person will be interested in carrying it forward a little more.

It is extra work to tranlsate to the aine format, but aine is tiny compared to any other chatbot and starts and runs many times faster than the next closest thing -and it has no extra dependencies whatsoever unless you choose to compile the wxWidgets GUI frontend. I would like to see a pure GTK frontend, but actually the cgi frontend is even better as it relieves you of even the GTK depends. The cgi (web) frontend works really well in any decent browser -it even works with links/lynx. If used with dillo, you do have to click to focus the input-box each time, but otherwise it works fine there too.

I find the aine syntax much easier to read than AIML and it is much more compact -more data in less space. the 'charlix' extensions use Xdialog to provide extra dialog functionality where needed. There is still lots to be done to make it into a usable tool, but it is a fascinating idea that you could ask 'Amy' for info about a program:
You: What is xpdf?
Amy: xpdf is a lightweight pdf viewing program. Hmmm, you don't seem to have it installed. Would you like to install it now?
You: Does it have a lot of dependecies?
Amy: No, it only needs Xlibs which you already have.
You: Okay, bitch, please install xpdf for me.
Amy: You don't have to get agressive! Shall I still install xpdf for you?
You: Sorry Amy. Yes please do install xpdf.
Amy: Downloading xpdf... installing xpdf... done! Shall I run it for you?
This is just the way that charlix functions -except you need debian and (best) the java AIML interpretor.

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TheProphet · Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 173

THAT"S what I was looking for! Getting the puter to program itself.

Amy just gives me that mess about having an IBM notebook and that it's cute...

If she's able to do spider work too, damn, son, I've got it made...

That's like the Holy Grail of "user friendly".

Me:Amy, can you download Festival and all it's dependencies, configure it and debug it?

Amy: Why, certainly, I just did it, is there anything else I can do for you?

Me:Get me the home phone numbers of Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, George Bush and Osama bin Laden...

Amy:Do you want me to dial them as well?

exProphecy · Posted: Thu 05 Mar 2009, 21:05 Post subject:

Hahhaa wow that would be cool. I've tried out the AineBot 8.12 and it's alright. But if it was able to find programs and download them for you, now that's just amazing.