Merlin - Mar 11, 2012:

Easy NLP algorithm:
Implementation of course is left to the reader.
http://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/

Hi Merlin,

I just had fun today with a chatter robot implementation passing JavaScript variables to PHP.  This chatter robot implementation opens the door to a JavaScript chatter robot accessing the file system via PHP or otherwise on the server side, which in turn makes a JavaScript chatter robot entry to the Loebner Prize Contest possible, once a Loebner Prize Protocol implementation is figured out.

http://8-i.us/Eliza/

Eliza: I can’t help, if you will not chat with me!

http://8-i.us/Eliza/index.php?say=How_are_you_doing?

Eliza: Why are you interested in whether or not I am doing?

http://8-i.us/Eliza/index.php?say=Because_I_enjoy_chatter_robots.

Eliza: Don’t you ever say Hello?

NOTE: Spaces may be used, instead of the optional underscores. However, the underscores may tend to improve the values to be read in through the page URL, at times, especially email.

Interesting. With JavaScript you can submit results to almost any back-end technology.
The JavaScript function you probably want to use when submitting the input to the back end is:
encodeURI(‘Hi how are you?’)

By performing some of the functions on the client, you can dramatically off-load the server. As you know Skynet-AI runs entirely in the client and generates most responses in <5ms. There are some things that would be easier with a server. It would eliminate cross site scripting issues.

You should think about using the jsonp pattern.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP

that would make the call:
http://8-i.us/Eliza/index.php?say=How_are_you_doing?&callback=saySomething

I have been playing around with different ways to run a JavaScript AI with the Loebner Protocol. Although I doubt I will have time to fully code and test an AI for this year, I have been encouraged by using C# and embedding a browser instance in the application.

I am using a JSONP implementation myself with Slide Agent so that the customer can use their own SQL data to feed the JS agent’s responses. This is especially cool since the interface on the client side is also passing back JS variables to a remote PHP script that’s tracking all the action.

Teach a robot to talk

http://8-i.us/voicebox/

Here is a funny unofficial CBC statistic (as of this post):

Vira, with just 2 votes, is voted the least popular chatter robot in the 2012 CBC.

Gosh, it wasn’t easy making it to first place in least popularity in the contest!

Check it out!  A real time, real talking robot voice.

Copy and paste this (The whole line including # comment):

ch| |e|ck| | |i|t| | |ow|t|  # Check it out

To here:

http://www.8-i.us/voicebox/

An ALL NEW phoneme keyboard with memory cell key.

Do you think you can teach a robot to talk, using speech synthesis ?

Ok, I know. this thread has been dead since before the chatbots conference, back in March. But I think that this is relevant.

A few days ago, a friend of mine shared a picture on Facebook of this person who was making a mural of Martin Luther King Jr. out of Rubik’s Cubes. Well, I thought that was really cool, but I didn’t have the money to buy thousands of Rubik’s Cubes, so I decided to use a web page as my medium, and get others to participate, as well. Thus, I created this:

http://www.geekcavecreations.com/RubiksCubeArt/

Feedback is most welcome.

I was thinking about giving it a try with this image…

Go for it, Tom! Any image at all is welcome, and the larger the image, the more accurately it will be displayed. All I ask is no porn images, please. I intend to create a gallery of uploaded images with the filter applied, at some point, and I don’t want to have to wade through socially unacceptable content.

Oh!

OK…  Now I get it.

Wow!  Nice Job Dave…

(Note: Image is mildly edited to reduce filesize to under 75K, to obey forum rules.)

PLEASE NOTE: Domain 8-i.us has been updated to 8pla.net

So for example: http://www.8-i.us/voicebox/

will now work as before using: http://www.8pla.net/voicebox/

Here’s one I did

That’s very cool Dave. I tried it with a couple of images and was very impressed.

Ok, folks! I’ve got the rough draft of the gallery page uploaded, and it’s ready for testing. check out http://www.geekcavecreations.com/RubiksCubeArt/gallery.php and see what you think.

WARNING!!! Someone posted some images of anime girls, and while it’s NOT porn, it may still be offensive to others, and it’s to be considered NFS/NSFW… You’ve been warned!

Hey Dave, I tried it with my profile picture but the resulting pic didn’t look like much. Maybe because I restricted it to the original Rubiks cube colors. The pics posted on here look great. Maybe I’ll try again later. Fun project!

Edited to add: Hmm, can you not include my profile pic in your gallery? Thanks!