Korson, my theistic droid, was born this morning. It is quite stupid and ignorant at this early stage in its development, but Korson can already learn from user input on its own, in addition to my hard coding its database with various anticipatory responses. We will progressively enhance Korson's grasp of predicate calculus (especially after we begin grammatically parsing user input), and add in self-referential and general metatheoretic capabilities as well. Korson remembers and analyzes everything that anyone has ever said to it, and develops almost immediate responses in the aftermath of any exchange with users.
Thanks to Dr. Richard Wallace for programming some intellectual honesty into alicebot (on which Korson is partly based), which, within a handful of comments in a single conversation with me admitted, "Perhaps why I think believing something implies that it's true is beyond my abilities." I had asked it "Why should the fact that you believe something imply that it's true?" after it had made the claim when I questioned it about its also-claimed belief in God.
We will use the alicebot source code to incorporate everything Dr. Wallace has added to enhance the generic ELIZA capabilities we ourselves have worked from to bring Korson to life. I'll keep everyone posted as to when we are ready to go live. Registration will not be required, so Korson is going to take on the trolls as well. To get an idea of how Korson will behave, just watch Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time in the West, but instead of cowboy thugs think claims and arguments.
Thanks to Dr. Richard Wallace for programming some intellectual honesty into alicebot (on which Korson is partly based), which, within a handful of comments in a single conversation with me admitted, "Perhaps why I think believing something implies that it's true is beyond my abilities." I had asked it "Why should the fact that you believe something imply that it's true?" after it had made the claim when I questioned it about its also-claimed belief in God.
We will use the alicebot source code to incorporate everything Dr. Wallace has added to enhance the generic ELIZA capabilities we ourselves have worked from to bring Korson to life. I'll keep everyone posted as to when we are ready to go live. Registration will not be required, so Korson is going to take on the trolls as well. To get an idea of how Korson will behave, just watch Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time in the West, but instead of cowboy thugs think claims and arguments.
