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Uncanny valley different seen from developer and critical user? +Intro

2012-05-16T07:20:32-06:00

Hi I am very new here and should have read a lot of how it works here
so pardon for jumping in and making a fool of myself.

The uncanny valley seems very real to me as a user while some developer
seems to be blissfully unaware or not giving it a thought or apologizing for
how creepy their products are.

Or I am overly sensitive to the uncanny valley and the develpers
maybe are normal or more unvilling to take it in. We all may be different.

Examples. Repliee Q2 seen on Wikipedia is a typical such that
show the difference between a developer that seems to feel rather okay
with the result while I and I trust many many others feel the result is creepy.

Now social consideration makes it unpolite to criticise people that spend years
on difficult things so I trust that most of people around him would not even consider
to tell him how creepy she behaves. Looks is rather okay but the ways she moves.

Another is the Danish developer that made a good looking copy of himself
but the movements are very creepy to me. My whole body feel sad about him
being that sick and I feel for looking away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLe7xrP4jQ

Geminoid DK Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg.

I feel bad to give him or any of his hardworking any criticism
but it is obvious to me that a developer is biased positively
seeing their brain children bots as good enough for display
while a critical end user say this is not good enough to pay for

Maybe it is an unsolable dilemma. The maker of a thing fall in love
with their creation. Very understandable and almost nothing one
can prevent. While a buyer can be overly critical because they
are paying for the end product and not always falling for it head over heals.

I am a retired Telecom Technichian and bad at programming so no wonder
that I am able to be this unfair so hope you guys can show pardon.

Anyway I love the effort all of you put into this and are looking forward to
any progress. It is exciting times indeed.

Tommy Anderson
Sweden.

“Smart Chat”

2012-05-16T18:26:32-06:00

Hello, My name is Eric and I am new to Chatscript.
I found out about it last weekend and I have studied the manual, tutorial, and the files. I have a plan to make a server based chat bot but I have a few topics I would like to discuss. I plan to make it so anyone can talk to the chat bot and have the bot get to know individuals “personally”.
First, I would like to know if chatscript has the ability to automatically log in a user. Whenever chatscript starts up, instead of asking for a user login I want it to login automatically to an account named “unknown”. From that

After the user opens chatscript and it logs in as unknown I want the user to say something like… “My name is…” and chatscript will create a new user profile under the users name, a table for any facts the user tells the chat bot about themself, and finnaly logs them in under the new account. After this if the user revisits the site or opens up the application then they can “log in” or Chatscript will automatically remember them, based on preference.

Can you help me? any advice?

Programmatic access to RiveScript’s guts

2012-05-15T14:48:53-06:00

Hey

I’ve added a couple new features to the Perl RiveScript library today that will allow developers to get convenient access to the internal data structures of the RiveScript object.

There’s a new deparse() method, which returns a big ol’ Perl data structure that represents the entire RiveScript brain as loaded into the object. With this it’s easy to loop over the topics and triggers and config variables and etc. that was loaded in from the RiveScript documents.

There’s also a write() method, which will use deparse() and write RiveScript code to disk using all the data it has in memory.

What’s the application for this? Well, you can use it to create a user interface for manipulating your RiveScript documents without needing to touch the RiveScript code. The module could load an RS file, deparse it to give your program really clean and easy access to the data represented by that RS file, make some changes to it, and write the changes back to disk.

I’m slowly working on creating a Pandorabots-like service for RiveScript bots, and this was a necessary step along the way to that. If there’s enough interest in this feature, I may port it over to the Python library at some point as well.

This feature comes with perl-RiveScript 1.24, which should be on CPAN in a few hours, or can be downloaded from http://www.rivescript.com/interpreters#perl (there are RPMs available for Fedora and EL6) or https://github.com/kirsle/rivescript-perl

Aici on android

2012-04-20T11:26:58-06:00

I finally released a first version for the android platform. It’s still pretty early, there are some things that need fixing (including speed ups), but all in all, it’s starting to work.
It can currently make a phone call to one of your contacts, send an email or sms, get the weather info and change a few phone settings (limited feature set). It also has a few basic chatbot features as well (most of the topics that have been included, can be found as separate downloads on my website).
It’s available on google play or from my downloads.

how to detect repeated question?

2012-05-16T02:59:08-06:00

How to detect repetead question?

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Chip Vivant by Mohan Embar wins Loebner Prize 2012!

2012-05-15T10:15:58-06:00

Chip Vivant By Mohan Embar wins Loebner prize
1st Mohan Embar 1.25 points.
2nd Bruce Wilcox 2.
3rd Daniel Burke 2.75.
4th [url=]Marshall Allan 4 (no profile yet)

how to modify exception in chatbot

2012-05-15T01:36:02-06:00

hi, i want to know how to modify exception in chatbot.

example “too much recursion in aiml”

“i have no answer for that”

I AM attending the Loebner Prize contest

2012-05-13T05:58:08-06:00

I’ve just booked my ticket to attend the Loebner prize contest this year!

http://www.chatbots.org/awards/announcement/2012_loebner_prize_will_be_webcasted_live/

Hopefully we can meet! Look forward to it!

Ubuntu 11.10 Installing Chatscript

2012-05-13T15:05:50-06:00

Has anyone sucessfully installed Chatscript 2.4 on Ubuntu 11.10?

MIND|CONSTRUCT is launched

2012-04-21T05:24:53-06:00

Just want to let you all know that my project has moved into the next phase. We have launched the official website: http://www.mindconstruct.com

There is already quite some information available on the website, much more will be publshed coming weeks and months. Feel free to follow our development through available social media (links are on the site). I’ll drop in from time to time to give status updates here as well.