AI baby steps

sandboks

What about this concept...the idea of a good AI is something that can ,say, look around a room and access the situation it is in.

We can get user information like browser and IP, platform. Lets make a profilerbot. something that can learn about people based on information it can gather. We can ask questions that get more detailed and complicated as they go on, in order to build a smarter database of profile evaluations.

Example: User is greated with, "My info says you are on a Mac in Los Angeles using Netscape 4 and came here from google images search....
Are you an artist,
a writer,
movie producer,

a leaf blower?

An artist? are you an illustrator, graphic designer, animator?"

Eventually it could great you with, "My info says....you must be a graphic designer." (?)

Whatcha think? can we get enough facts from php to start evaluating users based on a gathered dataset?

BuzzLY

That really doesn't have anything to do with PHP. But this is the lounge, and we are the kings (and queens) of digression.

The problem with your approach is that it requires too much user input. If you have to directly query people, you are going to annoy users immensely. In fact, most users don't want to be tracked like that at all -- spybots do stuff like what you describe, but in the background. I hate spybots.

Your theory seems valid, but your method needs work.

planetsim

The basic idea doesnt seem bad.. But AI.. Im pretty sure it learns, not asks.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by planetsim
The basic idea doesnt seem bad.. But AI.. Im pretty sure it learns, not asks.

...finds out it needs to know about you by riffling through your Microsoft Wallet...

sandboks

yeah that was a stupid idea. :rolleyes:

heheh

"Not much to do with php" you say!? It does in the regard that it is db intensive and the comparing of data requires some kind of code to move the bits about, but i digress.

I think the concept would have to be done in two 'rooms' one interface that requires the community of question answering types. The other would be the outcome of that community input, the bot that makes wild assumptions about a user based on thousands of lines of weighted data.

I was thinking about the idea (after i posted it of course), and i realized that it would probably just be offensive anyhow. I have made some versions of the IM chat bot using applescript and tried to make one that was a friendly secretary, but sure enough it eventually started offending people with it's instant wit and nonsensical replies....maybe we should just make a sensitivebot, smart enough to know when your mad at it and it starts to appologize for its poor conduct.

Bottom line: i saw the traffic on this list was slow, so i thought i would try to drum some interest back up...count me in for some of the work load.

stolzyboy

maybe you should check out http://modbot.phpbuilder.com

they are supposed to be making an AI bot to moderate the forums, for the more often asked questions/problems