Thread: Chat BOT

A program that will also say one thing, or maybe even a couple of things, when you input a certain string is a fruitless programming venture and should be avoided.

That's absurd! So would you say that to develop a Windowed operating stystem "is a thing of the past" and so it would be worthless to write "yet another"? In my opinion, all sincere effort is worthwhile, since it helps improve one's skills. Sure, artificial intelligence is a great idea, but let's face it: computers do not think! There is a beauty in that, you know. The essence of the computer, in fact, is that it will only do what you tell it to do and how you tell it to do it! Be proud of that, dammit
The experience I have with AI type behaviour, in fact, falls in this category. At work, we do a lot of "simulative AI" such as this, and the results are very satisfying, actually. The thing is, the human mind can be easily made to believe the patterns are random and natural, when in fact, they are viewing a subset of controlled behaviour.

Anyway, thinking is a completely different topic. The main obstruction is memory consumption. Learning takes lot's of it, and it also takes a lot of CPU time to process the decision making. No doubt, though, it is an extremely interesting project. Any takers?

> blackwyvern : What I envision for chatbots is the next step in creating a true AI. You can create a nueral network that links words with common thoughts...

That's a great idea! Wish I'd have thought of that one? [Sarcasm]

More seriously, how would you propose we do that? How does one link a neural network with text & obtain meaningful ouput? Would it be any better than other forms of matching, such as keyword/synonym searches? I for one don't think a chatbot, who's only means of input is textual, could ever approach true AI.

I think this discussion would be better served under 'General Discussions' rather than C++ Programming.

6) Scan wordlist.h for a match.

You mean wordlist.txt, right?

Also, look at your logic, here:

M: Hello, my name is Marvin, how are you?

Y: Well, fine, I suppose...
/*...marvin doesn't understand and so sends
"Well, fine, I suppose..." to the text file

M: I don't understand. Perhaps later...

Y: Well, fine, I suppose...

Now what happens? How can Marvin generate any response?

More seriously, how would you propose we do that? How does one link a neural network with text & obtain meaningful ouput? Would it be any better than other forms of matching, such as keyword/synonym searches?

That's an excellent point, Davros.

Here is one way to implement the AI:

-first, you'll need 4-20GB of memory for Marvin to work with.

-start with a dictionary, thesaurus, and grammer (for conjugation of verbs and such) database. Marvin will need these to learn. The dictionary he uses must give hime the type of the word too (verb, noun, adjective, etc...).

-set up something like Blackwyvern's IRC observation idea. Let marvin just sit there for several weeks, just digesting (potentially foul ) conversation. During this time, Marvin saves every sentence in a database, and meanwhile creates yet another database - a contextual one.

-finally, release Marvin, the amazing chatbot onto the world, where, using what he learned from the IRC chatroom(!), he goes on to learn to converse with anyone, and in any situation. C3PO comes to mind

A need a little clarification on what this guy meant. We were talking bout ways to link the keywords to replies. I just need an idea how to actually incorporate it.

x: Look, what you want is an enum. You don't want to hard-code numbers for tokens.

LiquidCyanide17: ok, i've never worked with tokens

x: May I see your code?

LiquidCyanide17: i thought i'd just link nums to nums, if theres a tutorila i'll learn it, thats no prob

LiquidCyanide17: not that far, jus finished the algo

LiquidCyanide17: tutorial*

x: Look, an enum just assigns a constant to each name in the list...what the constant actually is is usually unimportant



LiquidCyanide17: ok i'm with ya so far
LiquidCyanide17: lol

x:
enum Whatever
{
dookie, dingleberry, crap
};

This sets "dookie" to 0, "dingleberry" to 1, and "crap" to 2.

LiquidCyanide17: o ok i get ya
LiquidCyanide17: that makes sense

x: you can assign these numbers to an int, or to a variable of type Whatever, but if you use the latter you can use ONLY the constants defined for it

x: But don't use 0, 1, or 2, always use the names


FurryKef: It makes the code a lot clearer