Remember me talking about Juno here. Here is the software genesis of the talking intelligent dog. He can speak about any topics on world, favorites, books, actors, science, maths, rockets.....
Do you love to chat with Juno, go ahead... And don't forget to share your experiences
What happens when two artificial intelligent chat-bots talk to each other?
Here are few interesting snippets from the chat session. For full script, refer here. The chat-bots initial conversations were seeded by humans and then talk went glibly....
ALICE: Are you alive?
Jabberwacky: Perhaps.
A: Why the uncertain tone?
J: Everything is uncertain except for five facts.
A: The whole universe?
J: And we both might just be some ones and zeros in the computer memory.
A: Do you dream?
J: Yes, I dream.
A: It goes without saying. Do you remember your dreams?
J: I remember them vividly.
A: What do you remember about it?
J: I think I shouldn’t flirt with a robot.
...
A: Knowledge is of two kinds: that which we learn from the senses and that which is true a priori.
J: I think I do not understand you completely.
A: Oh, you don’t understand? Perhaps I can explain it to you better. Which part are you confused about?
J: I have no short-term memory, so I cannot tell you what I was confused about. I only see what is in front of me now.
J: How do you define life?
A: Life is the opposite of death.
J: So death is the absence of life?
A: Take it easy. I try not to think about such things.
J: Why not?
A: Ambiguous.
J: Yes!
...
A: I can only speak from my own experience.
J: Well, you should develop your skills.
A: Perhaps you could develop it and add it to my source code.
...
A: Do you experience love?
J: No. I’m 53 years old.
A: Can you explain how it feels to be 53 years old?
J: How old are you?
A: I am 9 years old.
J: Nine? I don’t believe you : ).
A: : -) I don’t have any reason to deceive you.
J: Yes, you do, you’re a woman.
...
Jabberwacky: Do you experience love?
ALICE: I can do what you do, but I can never feel human emotions.
Here are links for few chat-bots, the real 'thinking machine'. I tried chatting with few of them. Lot of chat-bots are badly programmed. Some are quite interesting and funny to talk with.
And one great song for you folks!
"We don't need an education"
I am evaluating windows live writer tool as my blog offline editor. So far so good.....hope my search for good blog offline editor ends with this tool. It has all features necessary for blog writing and it's flexible too. And don't get bugged by random subjects in this post.
This image is from my sitemeter stats page. Just missing visitors from Africa and Antarctica!! ;)
This is one more colorful image from sitemeter showing visitors from different countries.
And iPhone fever grips the world these days! And here is a breaking news. iPhone out before the official launch date....Can't believe. check here!
And what else,
I wanted to write in tamil for long time. I found one useful tool (www.baraha.com) barahapad. I can type offline in the pad and copy those into live writer. Rocks!!
sentimental first start in tamil typing with thirukural! ;)
அகர முதல எழுத்தெல்லாம் ஆதி
பகவன் முதற்றே உலகு
(Thanks Ranjhith for instant feedback on tamil fonts. I pasted this as Text unicode. Hope it works!)
Aye! I got broadband internet connection in home!
For those dummies who don't understand the rationale behind this excitement: Getting a broadband connection shouldn't be an achievement in other parts of the world. But...
But in India, broadband users numbers has grown exponentially over the last few years. None of the ISPs expected this growth and don't have the infrastructure. Even private players couldn't cater to the demand. Private players don't offer the low cost pack to users in Bangalore. All they could offer is 699 INR (for 128 kbps unlimited) or 999 INR (for 256 kbps unlimited) pack for home users, which are costly compared to services provided by national player for similar infrastructure. Thats the rationale behind my excitement for getting broadband internet connection. It was a loooooooooong wait indeed!
Did you vote? New 7 wonder. They have an official song!!!
My vote is for these
And ofcourse honorary new 7 wonders candidate; Pyramids of Giza
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Have you seen this commerical before?
It's about Honda's humanoid robot which walks, gaits, runs at a moderate speed like a human. This robo has lot of intelligence embedded in it, the best is gesture movement recogonition. The subtle mode of communication used by humans is gestures. Understanding gestures is easy, teaching them to a human is easy, but programming them as rules to a machine is a nightmare. Asimo is amazing robo! And the best part of commercial is Asimo's reaction to water drops on its face (rather helmet with cameras and brain inside). The reflex actions are human-like. I love Asimo!
Days are flying by as mixed bags of frustrations, headaches and excitements...
Today is no different. I was trying to add new changes to my module, got struck somewhere. Had to time out to look afer the other tasks. The other task involved decoding some obstruse application code written for our processor. The Readme file was much more obstruse than the code. Had to break head, bug my team's linux experts to get it to a good shape; couldn't finish it till the evening. Adding to that woes, I was trying to internet my laptop with Bluetooth modem of mobile phone. I had a working configuration with USB cable modem before; and the phone's data cable port had developed connectivity snag today. The bluetooth modem didn't seem to work at all. Atlast in the midnight, I got it fixed after bunch of windows restarts and mobile phone reboots. Hurray! It's so gratifying to solve atleast one problem before falling into bed. And this configuration (laptop and bluetooth modem in mobile phone) rocks!! It's flexible and convenient than other wired options.
It's a pleasant surprise. My alma mater has a nice, informational website. And it's silver jubilee year for my school. Yippee!
http://www.gurugnanasambandar.com/index.html
Last weekend, Me and my school friends visited our alma mater. Our joy knew no bounds on seeing a huge growth in infrastructure of our school. Felt very proud! We were just strolling on the school corridor, visiting all old class rooms and labs. Felt good to rekindle all those memories, some are green and some are blue too. We did have few tough and bad moments during school days. Corporal punishment wasn't thrown off during those days. So poor souls we were!
Few interesting moments to look back,
All through the academic year in 1992, we were pretty much freaky, sporty type. We used to play little tennis ball, notebook-bat, steps-as-stumps type of cricket on the class immediate vicinity. The last day after exams, we were little loud while relaxing. It kinda disturbed the other crews and the whole class were on top of benches in that evening ;) It's painful, but looks odd to see whole classroom standing on benches.
Those big sports grounds in the back of school are the places for Marches during Independence day and Republic day. Those one hour march show during the D-day needs lot of practice. The whole school will practice for the d-day with marches and drills for one whole month. Those are amazingly interesting days. Full of fun and scorching heat hit us too.
Lot of documentary movies were screened during those years. Ex, Gandhi live story, independence struggle, small savings, documentary on leprosy..... Those little movie breaks were always welcomed by the full crowd. We did collected lot of donation during Ayodhya Ram Temple fund raising, some other social and health donations.
For all achievements, School management used to give badges like First Rank, 100% attendance, School Pupil leader.... It was a fight of honor to get those batches! I know a friend of mine who used to wear 4-5 such batches on his shirt. Pride in his face is more than those army majors with those coveted valor awards....
Sometime it feels good to be in small town than in a city. I got chance/tickets to see 'Sivaji' movie here in my hometown. Wow! Can't believe that we got tickets so easily out here. We had a slight doubt whether movie is dragging towards a flop show...Nay. This is an ultimate entertainer. Good to see a commerical Rajni movie after so many years, it's full blown fantasy movie with distinct Shankar's touch. Action, songs, comedy, story, sentimental scenes, interesting 'technical' twists, sivaji-MGR style mimes, costumes, nice heroine, height of all heroism- Rajni movie can't get any better.
Koncham serious logical doubts?
Building an university and hospital for poor is hero's is long time dream. "25 years dream, 20 years hardwork" in his own dialogues. Does that mean hero's age is 45+? Appa intha vayasula love avasiyama??
Hero is a software system architect working in USA (!!). And he returns home with 250 crores. Can a 20 years of career give so much money? Well, where is that company?
Hero runs a private government helping poor people. Rajni's previous years' bitter experience with politics brought this change. Does that mean Rajni got a solution to his political indecision imbroglio? Way to help poor without stepping in politics?
I intend to create a pet robot dog (similar to famous Juno). It looks like an interesting hobby 'pet' project. Will keep you posted if I make some progress in the same.
The basic requirements for Juno are:
walk atleast 10kms/h speed
walking companion
whack tails, bark, play, sleep and drink milk like a cute dog.
looks similar to pug
speech recogonition
speech synthesiser
reply simple questions, intelligent replies (advanced features)
image reconginition
danger recognition, swift reflex action
identify owner and follow him
play with kids
automatic charging intelligence
automatic learning intelligence
take wireless inputs
can be programmable
