AI

[coalescent]

At the risk of setting myself up for mockery:

Niall attempts to learn English, or whatever language you care to teach it, by breaking down the sentences you type in, remembering words, connections between words, the number of times a particular connection has occured, and start/end sentence markers.
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And of course there's the old hook-it-up-to-irc idea, due any time now...

Bidibidibidibidibidibidibidi.

Comments

[ex-stephmog743.livejournal.com]

niall!!!! I've missed niall! Well, I would have done except its been twelve years... oh niall *hugs*

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

*blnks*

Uh...Glad you're happy, but any chance of an explanation? :)

[ex-stephmog743.livejournal.com]

the program... sorry *g*

I used to spend hours reading over my schoolmate Vicky's conversations with Niall, which she used to print off on an old-skool daisy roll printer and bring in for our amusement.

Unfortunately I can't get that download to work. I really want to though.

[ex-stephmog743.livejournal.com]

correction! I've got it to work. Thanks for unwittingly providing me with a link to my childhood! And there are worse namesakes you know ;)

[snowking.livejournal.com]

At the risk of setting myself up for mockery:

Well, you've never done that before.

Bidibidibidibidibidibidibidi.

Tim's Twiki, you're Dr Theopolis.

And I've just found out Dennis Haybert was in Buck Rogers...



I guess him and Keifer pass time on the set by comparing previous terrible haircuts.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Well, you've never done that before.

Pffft.

Anyway, I think we should set this up as a bot. He can speak for me in my absence. Who has the know-how?

[sdn.livejournal.com]

i think everyone needs his or her own bot or OS.

[pikelet.livejournal.com]

Non-Intelligent-AMOS-Language-Learner

I had a version of this for the Amiga back in about 1991 - coded, unsurprisingly, in AMOS.

Talked gibberish, but it was better than ELIZA, at least.

ah, Niall

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

lacking real workmates, I debate problems and prioritizing with a NIALL dictionary called "workmate". He often comes up with interesting/useful suggestions -- the trick is to keep on subject and remember to address it in the vocative a lot.

But he's only got another twenty words in him before his tiny head explodes! And he can learn no more. Then he'll become a fortune cookie you can only talk to until you say a new word.

I have some dictionaries at home which say other things.

Mock! Mock! Mock!

[applez.livejournal.com]

Actually, remember Agent Ruby from SFMOMA?

http://www.sfmoma.org/espace/artist_overview_top.asp

[(Anonymous)]

The algorithm it uses is famous and ancient - i first came across it under the name Dissociated Press (http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/D/Dissociated-Press.html). I'll have a go at writing one that reads your RSS feed ...

-- Tom