So little time?
It's called life, consisting of work, family, kids / grandkids / various commitments / duties / responsibilities / house work / lawn care / car care / emergency calls / etc., etc.
It does leave me somewhat little time to devote to more pleasurable, personal persuits.
Understood . . and yeah . . that is true . . . . I am not in much better shape timewise.
As I've mentioned before, my interests lie more in the refinement and production of a working AI instead of a cute looking 3D personality. What good is a sparkling character if it has all the intellectual prowess of a gnat?
I'm curious . . what do you use as a yardstick for intellectual prowess? . . . most normal humans can not be accused of having much prowess intellectually . . which is why most humans just muddle through their daily lives accepting what society tells them is right, wrong, or currently in fashion . . they dont have the intellectual ability to do too much thinking for themselves . . not beyond their normal mundane existence . . the minutae of their daily lives takes up most if not all of their intellectual ability.
To me . . and this is just my opinion . . . for a "cute looking 3D personality" to be both an effective AI . . and a convincing personality . . it would have to combine a high level of natural language processing (being able to understand not just the input words . . but how they are used in context and the emotional impact of the words and how they are used) . . the ability to learn things on its own (both from "reading" texts and examining websites for info) . . the ability of creating its own replies (not limited to pre-scripted responses) . . and the ability to both understand and display emotional content in what is being said . . such as knowing that dragging words out is a way of trying to get its own way or to get attention . . such as the stereotypical daughter doing her best to sound cutsie as she whines "but daaaaaaddyyyyyyy . . that's not fair"
To me . . pure techniocal ability of an AI to understand text/spoken input as grammatically correctly as possible . . may be a wonderful technical accomplishment in writing algorthms . . but it is a very boring AI . . . kind of like an really good quality expert system.
Whereas an AI that could convincingly come across as "friendly" and "understanding" . . that also had the capability to provide needed info (by either having it in memory, or by doing a web search) when required . . could prove to be not only a great companion . . but a very handy helper as well.
I have found some sources of info into how to get an AI entity to display emotions . . and have started to study them.
While I have a great deal of respect for the ones working with the "Scripted" bots, I have no desire to persue them to any degree. Learning bots, that is, bots that can learn on their own without having to be scripted to say the correct response for a given query, etc.
I think that "learning" is one of . . if not the most important criteria . . that most be considered in whether we can ever consider an AI entity to be a "real AI" . . or a "real" personality
While there are so many varied areas of AI with which to explore, there's simply not enough time in my life to delve into them all and sort out all the madness. :zdg_huh
true . . same here? :buck2