seanlevan

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Comment · 11 years ago

I have tried replicating what you a talking about, but I haven't been able. When I ask him for a joke, he is quite funny. Do you have a screenshot to reproduce this?

Comment · 11 years ago

What is wrong with his jokes? I have tried asking him a few and his responses are quite funny.

Comment · 11 years ago

I have indeed heard about FreeHAL. It won "Most Popular" (in the past) in the same contest in which my bot most recently was awarded "Best New Bot". FreeHAL is now discontinued, last I've heard.

Though were did you hear that it's creator was 13-years-old during itself inception? I'm not doubting it, I just haven't found any online sources to validate that point.

Comment · 11 years ago

For some reason, I'm not able to replicate the bug you caught. On my side, ACUMAN answers that question correctly.

Comment · 11 years ago

I have encountered the same issue, but then again! Just continue building something, this time trying to fix the poor syntax practices that you have been caught with.

Comment · 11 years ago

I am very indebted to my parents due to the way that I was raised and the freedom which being home-schooled permitted, but my parents are not familiar with the field of computer science and I must admit that I am entirely self-taught. This is because I came from a family of with a primarily literature-oriented and cultural background. I enjoy being raised in artistry.

Here is a Wiki page on my father: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Le_Van

My mother is an educator and tutor. http://www.myriamlevan.com/

My sisters are also musicians, who are studying at Princeton university.

Comment · 11 years ago

Thank you! That's a nice compliment.

For me, it was 5% reading, 95% hands-on experience, though it differs from person-to-person.

Comment · 11 years ago

Those bugs are fixed and the algorithm regarding identifying countries and states in discussion has been improved.

Comment · 11 years ago

As I've replied to other people: No AIML. My bot uses its own markup language custom-made to its needs that I call ACUMANSCRIPT. What makes it special is the backend, which is much more flexible and advanced then AIML (which focusing on exact string matching).

In fact, ACUMAN beat the ALICE bot in the last Chatterbox Challenge by over 20 points, winning the "Best New Bot" prize.

http://acuman.us/readmore.php

Comment · 11 years ago

The model behind my project is not designed after human interaction, but rather a combination of what is the most efficient for me to maintain and best mimics human behavior.

http://acuman.us/readmore.php

Comment · 11 years ago

Hi, I wasn't able to reproduce that glitch.

Comment · 11 years ago

I do pursue programming, and contribute to open-source projects such as DuckDuckGo.

I also have a job as part of a web development and design team called http://www.whiskeyandwhiskey.com/.

I have quite a few opportunities for hands-on experience.

Mine is AI in the sense that it uses machine learning algorithms and corroborates it in a way that mimics human behavior. Maybe I put too much effort to the interface, but the interface took me a while.

Furthermore, my project does not end at the chatterbot element of it: it also collects useful psychometric data using text classification algorithms.

http://acuman.us/readmore.php

Comment · 11 years ago

That's actually a glitch that I am fixing... desperately! Some of the backend APIs are down due to excessive requests, so I am trying to get them back up.

Comment · 11 years ago

My chatterbot received the definition by WolframAlpha, per as what it's programmed. It found the entity was "sentence" and then looked for a definition. It does not simply grab whatever WolframAlpha response it can find.

Evidence for this lies in the fact that for the last hour, WolframAlpha was down for my bot due to excessive requests- and yet, no-one has noticed until this point- proving that there is significantly more to the algorithm then merely scraping their API.

Comment · 11 years ago

There is a synonym directory programmed, as well as Named-enetity recognition.