i know i offered this, but...

idea is like: some kind of system even in www env. that holds all kinds of data and answers questions. i think it would be nice. if you dont know something you just ask it. noone will say what a raw question....

it would be fun...

I like the idea that the system should be placed in a www environment. Do you mean like a search engine, where you enter questions instead of search phrases?

Where should it get its data from? Websites? User input? Both?

And what is the AI part in this project? [addsig]

technicaly, you input anything to him. questions, statements.

yeah. he would use web, inputed, ypn, irc(maybe) data.

ai part would be making him understand questions, learn something he saw before. like if i ask him about asm and real mode he would look for it and learn about thet, and only then answer. next time he would not need to search for it. he would know what the ^%&%$ is that.

Wouldn't that databot get kinda slow when he collects more and more knowledge? [addsig]

Yeah, that seems like that would make the site really slow. But I could be wrong. [addsig]

You know, some search engines (like Excite)claim to be able to answer natural language queries. At least, they can aattempt to link you to relevant websites.

I don't know what kind of algorithms you're planning to use for the intelligence system, but I think I know one kind of question answering system that will really shine.

Suppose that the system is set up as a kind of knowledge forum where people can ask questions and offer answers to other people's questions. Over a period of time, the AI of the site tries to understand which users are likely to be able to provide answers to each question and channels such questions to them. It will also check to see if a similar question has been asked before, and show the user the answer to that question.

The idea is that, when the system reaches "critical mass" it will have the ability to answer almost any question. This ability will draw more people to the site who will also answer more questions ... you get the picture.

So, on the surface it will look like just an information sharing site, but the AI stuff in the system will channel the right questions to the right users. It will also store the answers to each question to cater for situations where nobody currently online is able to help.

What do you think of it? The ultimate intelligence is the human intelligence, assisted by machine intelligence.

You know, some search engines (like Excite)claim to be able to answer natural language queries. At least, they can aattempt to link you to relevant websites.

I don't know what kind of algorithms you're planning to use for the intelligence system, but I think I know one kind of question answering system that will really shine.

Suppose that the system is set up as a kind of knowledge forum where people can ask questions and offer answers to other people's questions. Over a period of time, the AI of the site tries to understand which users are likely to be able to provide answers to each question and channels such questions to them. It will also check to see if a similar question has been asked before, and show the user the answer to that question.

The idea is that, when the system reaches "critical mass" it will have the ability to answer almost any question. This ability will draw more people to the site who will also answer more questions ... you get the picture.

So, on the surface it will look like just an information sharing site, but the AI stuff in the system will channel the right questions to the right users. It will also store the answers to each question to cater for situations where nobody currently online is able to help.

What do you think of it? The ultimate intelligence is the human intelligence, assisted by machine intelligence.

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On 2002-04-04 15:32, nonama wrote:
technicaly, you input anything to him. questions, statements.

yeah. he would use web, inputed, ypn, irc(maybe) data.

ai part would be making him understand questions, learn something he saw before. like if i ask him about asm and real mode he would look for it and learn about thet, and only then answer. next time he would not need to search for it. he would know what the ^%&%$ is that.

ISTM that the engine should use a knowledge base, semantic net, or very flexible hyperbase to search in. This could make some things quite a bit easier. (NOPE, being a metatext system, will significantly reduce the difficulty of writing this sort of program, but you probably don't want to have to wait for NOPE, and I don't know if you'd like its design.)

I like seunosewa's idea of redirecting Questions to other ppl. This could be done as some sort of Instant-MEssaging system where you can ask new questions or answer questions directed to you. "Knowledge sharing" - I like that! [addsig]

this idea gets to not ai stuff. but its a nice idea. i offered peter a system with questions and answers. he should put something alike on to gather Q&A.

The AI involves:
(1) Learning the relationships between questions in order to find out related questions, in case none of the users currently online is able to answer a particular question.

(2) The program could/should also try to determine who is likely to know the answer to a particular question so that, for example, if there is a question about PHP on YPN it automatically goes to Peter, etc. Or else, each question will have to be posed to each user. In a 1000-user network, it means that for every 1 question you post, a thousand questions would come back at you...
With some AI, this can be limited to the 15 or so questions you are going to be most likely to ba able to answer.

There's a lot of AI here....