Pei Wang, it is neat to hear you're from Tianjin. We are living in the Wan Chun Garden apartments about a mile northeast of the main train station. I teach English on the weekends to get me out a little. Teaching English as a second language also helps me to keep in mind the basics of vocabulary and grammar when it comes to contemplating AI ideas. Since wages are so low here, even for well-educated people, I am in the process of hiring a few people for a year or so to move our project along faster. Please let me know if you have any leads or suggestions.
I plan for the Convun database to be a resource for intelligence engines, not the intelligence per se. Hopefully, it could be used in a variety of ways, from simple reflexive responses to various types of more sophisticated uses. Currently EllaZ systems is simply a conventional chatterbot with a number of special purpose program features such as I Ching, word math, WordNet, Blackjack, and so on. These additional program features are all accessible using a natural language interface, as opposed to button clicks or hyperlinks. Let me know if you have any questions about any of the features. Ben, one of the challenges it seems is how best to structure the Convun database so as to maximize its use for intelligent systems. There is likely no clear correct approach, so we will just do our best. I will try soon to submit a description of where we are headed to this mailing list and ask for comments. Hopefully the convun database will become something that will be of use to you all. There is a lot of public domain material that any intelligent entity should know, and also much copyright protected material that is available with a little persuasion and acknowledgment of authorship. Getting the data collected, organized, and formatted in a way that it will be available for processing is the challenge. I like to imagine an AGI entity saying, "Hmm, this situation is similar to that in Act 2 of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and the result there was . . . " Catch you all later . . . Kevin C. ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
