Fatima Pereira - Dec 15, 2011:

I am not sure if I understand your bot’s approach. I’ve spent some 2 hours trying to put inputs and your bot keeps just saying I, I, I. There wasn’t a moment it could say anything more than I .. not very interesting… sorry.

Fatima, please excuse the opportunistic nature of this query, but I’ve been looking through the forum and could not find any descriptions of your own project(s). Does this mean that you are not working on a chatbot project and that as an interested spectator, your services might be available for beta-testing others?

Fatima - Despite Arthur’s claims of a “thinking” machine, he has yet to show a single example of this. He has been flogging this dead horse for years.

Andrew Smith - Dec 15, 2011:

Fatima Pereira - Dec 15, 2011:

I am not sure if I understand your bot’s approach. I’ve spent some 2 hours trying to put inputs and your bot keeps just saying I, I, I. There wasn’t a moment it could say anything more than I .. not very interesting… sorry.

Fatima, please excuse the opportunistic nature of this query, but I’ve been looking through the forum and could not find any descriptions of your own project(s). Does this mean that you are not working on a chatbot project and that as an interested spectator, your services might be available for beta-testing others?

Right.
As I say in my profile, I really can’t program. As I always said I am a Biologist, I am also a teacher in my country.
But as I work in educational field sometimes I am invited to give some contributions helping people to make their bots more appreciable. So I chat with the bots and try to see how the bot behaves with the average user. The only difference between me and an average user is that I know somethings about how bots are programmed.
It’s not a professional service, it’s somekind of hoby and I also do it because it is the kind of material I want colect to discuss the learning process in a comparision between animals and computers.
So don’t be shy with me here… I am not really judging nobody. And yes, if some of you invite me to know and try your works I’ll feel glad to help and provide feedback.

Laura Patterson - Dec 15, 2011:

Author,

Before your script can execute, you need to correct the following error:

fact.style.setAttribute is not a function
[Break On This Error] fact.style.setAttribute(‘position’, ‘absolute’);
AiMind.html (line 3817)

Beyond this I am not sure what other errors may exist since this attribute is not defined and causing your script to crash.

Hope this helps.

Laura, you may be using a browser other than MSIE. For instance,
the following Usenet comp.lang.javascript message describes a
similar problem encountered when someone was using Chrome.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/msg/cd22ce18a414fd23

> FYI, this page still does not work correctly with chrome.
>
> Uncaught TypeError:
> Object #<CSSStyleDeclaration> has no method ‘setAttribute’

The problematical “setAttribute” code is not part of the AI,
but only of the Tutorial-mode display of the AI thinking.

Fatima Pereira kindly says:
> Arthur T Murray

> I am not sure if I understand your bot’s approach. I’ve spent some 2 hours
> trying to put inputs and your bot keeps just saying I, I, I. There wasn’t a moment
> it could say anything more than I .. not very interesting… sorry.

AiMind.html is written for Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE).
If it only says “I” repeatedly, perhaps you are not using MSIE.
If you do use MSIE, you can start the AI running and see
what it says before you enter any input. The manual at

http://code.google.com/p/mindforth/wiki/JsAiManual

describes more complex things to do with the AI.

In other news, today I have brought my Acer Aspire One
netbook with Windows XP to an Internet cafe so that I
can sign up for a Hotmail account and move Russian
textfiles around by e-mail on Hotmail. The netbook
lets me toggle back and forth between English
input and Russian input by pressing Alt-Shift.

Since my Mentifex AI webpages already receive
lots of visitors from Russia and Ukraine, I figure
that my attempt to build artificial intelligence in
Russian may spark some interest in those
genius programmers who speak Russian.

I am sorry if some Netizens find it difficult to
get my AI Mind running and thinking properly.
In the New Year of 2012 I hope gradually to
advance the AI software in English, German
and Russian.  Bye for now. -Arthur (Артур Артурович)

Arthur T Murray - Dec 15, 2011:

Laura Patterson - Dec 15, 2011:

Author,

AiMind.html is written for Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE).
If it only says “I” repeatedly, perhaps you are not using MSIE.
If you do use MSIE, you can start the AI running and see
what it says before you enter any input. The manual at

http://code.google.com/p/mindforth/wiki/JsAiManual

describes more complex things to do with the AI.

Ok. Mr. Murray, I’ll try it on MSIE.

It always a challenge when building a web based application that depends on a browser environment ie: (JavaScript). MSIE should not be a development platform since it is a shrinking browser platform and generally problematic. With this said, there are numerous work arounds that will provide cross platform solutions for JavaScript developers although this often adds yet another layer of coding to your script. When I develop in JavaScript, I test each function with each browser platform independently before moving on to the next. This is a tedious method of developing code, but a necessary one if my application is to execute equally for all users.

Recently there are two new e-books about the Mentifex AI Minds.

http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Products/SKU-000540906/AI4U.aspx

is the e-book version of AI4U unchanged from the 2002 first edition,
so I do NOT recommend its purchase; it is _only_ an option.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Meme-ebook/dp/B007ZI66FS

is the brand new e-book of “The Art of the Meme” which I wrote
assiduously most mornings over the past six weeks in 2012.

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/Dushka.html

is the Russian AI Mind in JavaScript for Internet Explorer.

Arthur T Murray - May 2, 2012:

... I do NOT recommend its purchase…

After reading the editorial review, I think this is a first but I heartily agree with Arthur.

Are you finding a strong interest in AI and Chatbots in general among Russians? I am only asking because on my software Slide Agent application, I am supporting Russian. I also feel that there would be a good market for virtual website assistants on Russian sites as well.

Laura Patterson - May 2, 2012:

Are you finding a strong interest in AI and Chatbots in general among Russians? [...]

I am finding a lively AI scene among Russian AI websites,
and the Dushka AI Mind gets many visitors from Russia and
Ukraine and also from some Western domains.

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/RuAiUser.html
is the Russian AI Mind User Manual (in English),
with a Google Translate URL back to itself for
Netizens to read the same page in Russian.

In JavaScript I can not take the Russian AI
much further. It still needs a lot of fine tuning.
I am hoping that Russian-speaking AI enthusiasts
will improve upon my work and build a better Mind.

While coding the Russian AI, I did learn how I should
code the German AI Mind, but it is not as much fun to
code the German AI as it is code the Russian AI.

I stopped coding in Russian or German for a while
to write a series of e-books for inclusion on the
http://www.amazon.com/Arthur-T.-Murray/e/B004OKWAM8/
author page. Each morning I like to work full-steam-ahead
on either AI Mind coding or creative writing for publication.

As for Russian-language chatbots, I have no knowledge.

I am not sure about your design/coding in regards to AI Mind but if your langauge arrays are isolated from the core scripting, then it’s just a matter of translation to each of the languages you wish to support. Languages like German French, Italian, Spanish and serveral other Euro languages should be no problem using a standard Latin-1 set.  Russian can be a bit more challeging but if your application is browser based, that is easily solved with special character codes. Google Translation Services generally handle this well.

In the case of complied Windows applications, this is easily solved by language packs. I will be supporting English, German, French, Italian, Spanish along with Russian in Slide Agent 1.0. Other languages will also be supported by add-on modules.

http://cyborg.blogspot.com/2012/08/aug23ruai.html

is the latest AI Lab Notes on coding the

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/Dushka.html

AI Mind that thinks in Russian.

Thanks for the update, Arthur! Good to see you.

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/DeKi.txt

(German AI source code in 32/64-bit Forth)

is the newest member of the AI Mind coterie:

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/Dushka.html

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mindforth.txt

http://code.google.com/p/mindforth/wiki/InFerence

is a description of the mind-module for machine reasoning

in the MindForth open-source artificial intelligence.