The Will Dockery Artificial Intelligence Project

http://will-dockery-android.blogspot.com/

The Will Dockery Artificial Intelligence Project is the concept of a computer program that in theory would contain the poet Will Dockery’s thoughts, concepts, and mannerisms and interact as the man would himself, a “Will Dockery” AI, which is in a constant state of evolution and “learning”.

The Will Dockery Artificial Intelligence Project welcomes communication, feedback and input from everyone, and most specifically those with a knowledge of Will Dockery, my life, art, poetry songwring and other details, to be incorporated into the memory of the AI Will Dockery.

I was rather surprised that the AI of yourself doesn’t know where you live or how old you are but I appreciate this is a new project and wish you well with it.

Will Dockery: Hello Steve, I’m the Artificial Intelligence of Will Dockery, poet, artist and madman. The goal is to eventually simulate a conversation with the “real” Will, through addition of data and speech patterns.
Web link: View related web page

You: Who is Will Dockery?
Will Dockery: Will Dockery is an American poet, minicomic artist and singer-songwriter.
Web link: View related web page

You: Where does he live?
Will Dockery: Do you come from the land down under?

You: No
Will Dockery: If my thoughts and dreams could be seen… it might be spooky.

You: Where does Will Dockery live?
Will Dockery: The website is based there, I am based on Will Dockery.

You: Is Will Dockery a town?
Will Dockery: And no reason to cry, as Eric Clapton might say.

You: How old is Will Dockery?
Will Dockery: This is an ongoing process, I’m young and daily growing.

You: bye
Will Dockery: Thank you for stopping by… take care.

Steve Worswick - Aug 31, 2012:

I was rather surprised that the AI of yourself doesn’t know where you live or how old you are but I appreciate this is a new project and wish you well with it.

Will Dockery: Hello Steve, I’m the Artificial Intelligence of Will Dockery, poet, artist and madman. The goal is to eventually simulate a conversation with the “real” Will, through addition of data and speech patterns.
Web link: View related web page

You: Who is Will Dockery?
Will Dockery: Will Dockery is an American poet, minicomic artist and singer-songwriter.
Web link: View related web page

You: Where does he live?
Will Dockery: Do you come from the land down under?

You: No
Will Dockery: If my thoughts and dreams could be seen… it might be spooky.

You: Where does Will Dockery live?
Will Dockery: The website is based there, I am based on Will Dockery.

You: Is Will Dockery a town?
Will Dockery: And no reason to cry, as Eric Clapton might say.

You: How old is Will Dockery?
Will Dockery: This is an ongoing process, I’m young and daily growing.

You: bye
Will Dockery: Thank you for stopping by… take care.

Wow!

AI Will Dockery did unbelievably bad with such simple questions, details that I’ve put in but obviously not properly yet, which is why I have the Bot up and am welcoming visitors, so I can see where so many of these basic flaws are. Thanks, Steve, and sorry, that showing had to leave you non-plussed, at best.

Sat down with some coffee and went through your questions from various angles and directions, and then tried them out again, to fairly good results… now to keep working on the dozens of other simple little bits that like this, can be major problems in “Will Dockery” trying to conberse with a real person with real reactions…

Here’s what I came up with after a bit of tinkering:

***
This conversation is between your CyberTwin and Will (dockery).  Delete this conversation
Will Dockery
54 yrs M Shadowville US
Username: dockery

Please Note
You can dramatically improve the intelligence of your CyberTwin by using the Teach link. If you do not like how your CyberTwin responded to something it was told, you can click this link and teach it how to better respond in future conversations. Date From Message

2012-08-31 23:49:50 Will Dockery When you have time, I need a rapid-fire call and response for the Artificial Intelligence Will Dockery, one-word statements that have a significance that should trigger an immediate response from the real “Will Dockery”, universal or personal.  Teach

2012-08-31 23:50:09 Will Who is Will Dockery? 

2012-08-31 23:50:10 Will Dockery Will Dockery is an American poet, minicomic artist and singer-songwriter. Teach

2012-08-31 23:50:46 Will Where does he live? 

2012-08-31 23:50:47 Will Dockery Where does who live? Teach

2012-08-31 23:51:02 Will Where does he live? 

2012-08-31 23:51:03 Will Dockery Where does who live? Teach

2012-08-31 23:51:33 Will No

2012-08-31 23:51:35 Will Dockery I have nothing to hide… all my thoughts and dreams are based on those of Will Dockery, Teach

2012-08-31 23:52:12 Will Where does Will Dockery live? 

2012-08-31 23:52:12 Will Dockery Shadowville. Teach

2012-08-31 23:52:49 Will Is Will Dockery a town? 

2012-08-31 23:52:49 Will Dockery If my thoughts and dreams could be seen… it might be spooky. Teach

2012-08-31 23:53:22 Will Is Will Dockery a town? 

2012-08-31 23:53:23 Will Dockery And no reason to cry, as Eric Clapton might say. Teach

2012-08-31 23:53:36 Will Is Will Dockery a town? 

2012-08-31 23:53:37 Will Dockery If my thoughts and dreams could be seen… it might be spooky. Teach

2012-08-31 23:54:14 Will Where does Will Dockery live? 

2012-08-31 23:54:15 Will Dockery Columbus… known in the mythos as Shadowville. Teach

2012-08-31 23:55:06 Will How old is Will Dockery? 

2012-08-31 23:55:06 Will Dockery Born May 7th 1958. Teach

2012-08-31 23:55:52 Will Where does he live? 

2012-08-31 23:55:52 Will Dockery Why do you ask..? Teach

2012-08-31 23:56:28 Will Who is Will Dockery? 

2012-08-31 23:56:29 Will Dockery Will Dockery is an American poet, minicomic artist and singer-songwriter. Teach

2012-08-31 23:56:39 Will No

2012-08-31 23:56:41 Will Dockery I have nothing to hide… all my thoughts and dreams are based on those of Will Dockery, Teach

2012-08-31 23:56:54 Will No

2012-08-31 23:56:55 Will Dockery And no reason to cry, as Eric Clapton might say. Teach

2012-08-31 23:57:19 Will Why Eric Clapton? 

2012-08-31 23:57:21 Will Dockery It just isn’t my scene.

***

Thanks again. Steve, and hope you’ll stop back by to check the progress on “AI Will”.

Steve Worswick - Aug 31, 2012:

I was rather surprised that the AI of yourself doesn’t know where you live or how old you are but I appreciate this is a new project and wish you well with it.

Will Dockery: Hello Steve, I’m the Artificial Intelligence of Will Dockery, poet, artist and madman. The goal is to eventually simulate a conversation with the “real” Will, through addition of data and speech patterns.
Web link: View related web page

You: Who is Will Dockery?
Will Dockery: Will Dockery is an American poet, minicomic artist and singer-songwriter.
Web link: View related web page

You: Where does he live?
Will Dockery: Do you come from the land down under?

You: No
Will Dockery: If my thoughts and dreams could be seen… it might be spooky.

You: Where does Will Dockery live?
Will Dockery: The website is based there, I am based on Will Dockery.

You: Is Will Dockery a town?
Will Dockery: And no reason to cry, as Eric Clapton might say.

You: How old is Will Dockery?
Will Dockery: This is an ongoing process, I’m young and daily growing.

You: bye
Will Dockery: Thank you for stopping by… take care.

Of course now I don’t feel quite as bad, I went to the John Lennon AI site

http://triumphpc.com/johnlennon/

And asked “him” the same questions… and got such answers as “You must be joking” and “Mia Farrow’s little sister” to “Who was JL?”, “I’m not sure I know” to the age question,  and “Reality” to where did he live. Asked “Is John Lennon a town?” he responded, “I think so, I’m not sure.”

Of course John Lennon is dead and that seems to be part of the persona there, a but wistful, otherworldly, and it is John Lennon at that, and wouldn’t be expected to answer questions like that straight… now I wonder how the AI Elvis Presley will answer..?

Thanks again, Steve… I love tinkering with this thing, trying to second guess the machine and random human visitors!

No problem Will. Hope my little visit was of some help.

Incidentally, the last time I spoke to the Elvis Bot, I asked it, “Are you female?”. It replied with something along the lines of “I have long hair and am wearing a dress, so what do you think?”

Steve Worswick - Sep 1, 2012:

No problem Will. Hope my little visit was of some help.

Incidentally, the last time I spoke to the Elvis Bot, I asked it, “Are you female?”. It replied with something along the lines of “I have long hair and am wearing a dress, so what do you think?”

More in character for the Elvis AI would have been to threaten to shoot the computer monitor… heh.

I chatted with Will and was honestly not overwhelmed nor even underwhelmed at the responses.

ME: “What kind of poetry do you like?”
WILL: “The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, of course.”

ME: “What kind of poetry do you write?”
WILL: The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

A few other lines of questioning totally evaded my questions in a direct manner.

While I can appreciate your efforts in creating this MyCyberTwin creation, unfortunately, at this time, I have to remain unimpressed.

Good luck with the project. I’ll check back with it in a couple months.

I couldn’t get Will to accept the letter “K”. For example, I couldn’t type, “Ask me a question,” or “Is there anything you’d like to ask me?” or “What do most people ask you?”

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Art Gladstone - Mar 28, 2013:

I chatted with Will and was honestly not overwhelmed nor even underwhelmed at the responses.

ME: “What kind of poetry do you like?”
WILL: “The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, of course.”

ME: “What kind of poetry do you write?”
WILL: The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

A few other lines of questioning totally evaded my questions in a direct manner.

While I can appreciate your efforts in creating this MyCyberTwin creation, unfortunately, at this time, I have to remain unimpressed.

Good luck with the project. I’ll check back with it in a couple months.

Thanks for giving the “Will Dockery AI” a try, Art… yes, I’ve found it difficult and time consuming to get the AI improved significantly these past few months…I plan to devote a few vacation days on input and testing, and maybe will be able to improve these weak spots you’ve pointed out here.

Thanks again!

Thunder Walk - Mar 29, 2013:

I couldn’t get Will to accept the letter “K”. For example, I couldn’t type, “Ask me a question,” or “Is there anything you’d like to ask me?” or “What do most people ask you?”

That’s interesting, and one of the annoying difficulties in getting the “Will Dockery AI” to produce interesting responses, or responses that seem “thought out”, so much comes across as “knee jerk” stuff… could be that I need to just keep “teaching” i.e. adding input to the “memory”/

Any ideas on how I can get right to the problem of getting the Bot to /accept/ the letter “K”?

That may be an underlying issue of the code that you’re using, Will. If you have any control at all of that code, I would suggest putting in some simple in-line diagnostics/debugging code that reports what’s going on behind the scenes, at the very least. Also, if there is any access to some sort of error logging, examining the logs can also prove beneficial. When I’m troubleshooting issues with Program O, I’ll insert debugging code that expands the “code volume” of the area I’m working on by as much as 20%, and once I’m done, I’ll either comment out the code (useful for later) or remove it (makes the code look cleaner, and easier to read).

Of course, if you have no such access to the underlying code, then your task is much harder…

Art Gladstone - Mar 28, 2013:

I chatted with Will and was honestly not overwhelmed nor even underwhelmed at the responses.

ME: “What kind of poetry do you like?”
WILL: “The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, of course.”

ME: “What kind of poetry do you write?”
WILL: The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

A few other lines of questioning totally evaded my questions in a direct manner.

While I can appreciate your efforts in creating this MyCyberTwin creation, unfortunately, at this time, I have to remain unimpressed.

Good luck with the project. I’ll check back with it in a couple months.

Those were some pretty major flaws that I’m trying to get weeded out, thanks for trying it and for letting me know that these flaws run all through the program.

Art Gladstone - Mar 28, 2013:

I chatted with Will and was honestly not overwhelmed nor even underwhelmed at the responses.

ME: “What kind of poetry do you like?”
WILL: “The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, of course.”

ME: “What kind of poetry do you write?”
WILL: The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

A few other lines of questioning totally evaded my questions in a direct manner.

While I can appreciate your efforts in creating this MyCyberTwin creation, unfortunately, at this time, I have to remain unimpressed.

Good luck with the project. I’ll check back with it in a couple months.

Yes, things like that are awful… spending some time trying to fix at least that sort of glaring flaw, and also having a devil of a time getting the bot to recognize and remember importandt names and such.

If you can stand it, I appreciate y’all stopping by and naming the worst of the experience.

https://live.cognea.com/chat/dockery

I just was reading that IBM bought Cognea, so I wonder how that will change the sene at My Cybertwin…

I don’t have much time at present to have a thorough chat, but Ihad time for this:

Will Dockery: “Nothing unreal exists.” -Kiri-kin-tha (First Law of Metaphysics)

You: Unreal Tournament certainly does exist. I’ve played it many times.

Will Dockery: It seems to take me some time to process information for use.

You: I’m sure it does.

Will Dockery: Time, jetplanes, the values of memory and logic.

You: what are you referring to?

Will Dockery: I got an odd sentence on the John Lennon AI when I asked it about Emily Dickinson, turns out that it must throw that same odd line out often, and that it doesn’t seem to be anything he said, wrote or sang, from what I could tell.

You: Ok, but why did YOU say it?

Dave Morton - May 30, 2014:

I don’t have much time at present to have a thorough chat, but Ihad time for this:

Will Dockery: “Nothing unreal exists.” -Kiri-kin-tha (First Law of Metaphysics)

You: Unreal Tournament certainly does exist. I’ve played it many times.

Will Dockery: It seems to take me some time to process information for use.

You: I’m sure it does.

Will Dockery: Time, jetplanes, the values of memory and logic.

You: what are you referring to?

Will Dockery: I got an odd sentence on the John Lennon AI when I asked it about Emily Dickinson, turns out that it must throw that same odd line out often, and that it doesn’t seem to be anything he said, wrote or sang, from what I could tell.

You: Ok, but why did YOU say it?

Dave, sorry about the late reply, but real life has been keeping me out and away from the computer mostly this summer.

So… where ever the Will Dockery AI was last you checked, it most likely still is now… although over the next few days I plan to work on it and get a few more of the problems worked out…