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Some ups and downs and places I can see to improve.

Thanks Art 

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Over the last few months I have been working hard on Legion and adding lots more information to her database and making little tweaks to her AIML here and there, most recently I have been teaching Legion about the solar system and I plan to make it one of her strong subjects as it fits in with one of the subjects over on DH. 

I am still in the process of adding more information, I don't really see that ever ending during Legions life. 

Here is a little demo of what has been added.


 Human: Hi Legion
Legion: Hello and welcome to Datahopa, how can I help you today? 

       
 Human: tell me about the solar system
Legion: The Solar System is located about two thirds of the way out from the Galactic Centre, on the inner edge of the Orion Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy. It consists of the Sun and its planetary system of eight planets, (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune), their moons, the asteroid belt, Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. It formed 4.6 billion years ago from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun, with most of the remaining mass contained in Jupiter. 


 Human: name the planets
Legion: They are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and sometimes Pluto.

       
 Human: how many planets are there?
Legion: There are 8 major planets in our solar system. There were 9 planets which including Pluto too. International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto is no longer a planet , it is a dwarf planet. There are 5 dwarf planets. 


 Human: what are dwarf planets
Legion: A dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), is a celestial body in direct orbit of the Sun that is massive enough that its shape is controlled by gravitational forces rather than mechanical forces (and is thus an ellipsoid), but has not cleared the neighboring region of other objects. It is a planetary-mass object having sufficient mass to overcome its internal compressive strength and achieve hydrostatic equilibrium, but is neither a planet nor a satellite. The IAU recognizes five dwarf planets in the Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. 


 Human: tell me about Pluto
Legion: I have more than one definition of Pluto. Do you want Pluto astronomy or mythology? 

       
 Human: astronomy
Legion: Pluto is the largest known member of the Kuiper belt. Originally classified as the ninth planet from the Sun, its status was reclassified to a "dwarf planet" in 2006. It is composed primarily of rock and ice, and is approximately one-sixth the mass of the Earth's Moon and one-third its volume. It has an eccentric and highly inclined orbit that takes it from 30 to 49 AU (4.4 to 7.4 billion km) from the Sun. Periodically it comes closer to the Sun than Neptune. Its orbital period is 248 Earth years and its day is equal to 6.39 Earth days. It has five known moons, the largest being Charon. 

       
 Human: what is the Kuiper belt
Legion: The Kuiper Belt sometimes called the Edgeworth Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is larger than the asteroid belt, (20 times as wide and 20 to 200 times as massive). It consists mainly of remnants from the Solar System's formation. Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen methane, ammonia and water. It is home to at least three dwarf planets: Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. Some moons, such as Neptune's Triton and Saturn's Phoebe, are also believed to have originated there. 

       
 Human: tell me about Saturn
Legion: I have more than one definition of Saturn. Do you want Saturn astronomy or mythology? 

       
 Human: astronomy
Legion: Saturn is a gas giant, the sixth planet from the Sun, and the second largest planet in the Solar System. The average distance between it and the Sun is over 1.4 billion km, or 9 AU. It takes Saturn 10,759 Earth days (or about 29.5years), to finish one revolution around the Sun. It has a pale yellow hue due to ammonia crystals in its upper atmosphere. It has a prominent ring system; nine continuous main rings and three discontinuous arcs, composed of ice, rocky debris and dust. It has sixty-two moons. Titan is its largest, the only moon in the Solar System to retain a substantial atmosphere. 

       
 Human: what is a moon
Legion: A moon is a natural satellite of a planet. 

       
 Human: does Saturn have moons?
Legion: Saturn has 53 official moons and 9 provisional (unofficial) moons. The most well-known of Saturn's moons is probably Titan. It is the second largest moon in the Solar System next to Jupiter's Ganymede. Titan is larger than the planet Mercury. Some of the other moons are Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas , Enceladus , Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Rhea, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Phoebe. 

       
 Human: tell me about the sun
Legion: The Sun (Sol) is the star at the centre of the Solar System. Roughly 149.6 million km (1 AU) from Earth, light travels from it to Earth in 8 minutes and 19 seconds. It is a yellow dwarf, spectral class G2V; a main-sequence star generating energy by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium, with a surface temperature of roughly 5778 K ((5505 C). It formed about 4.6 billion years ago and accounts for 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. It orbits the centre of the Milky Way at roughly 24,000 to 26,000 light-years from the galactic centre, with one clockwise orbit taking 225 to 250 million years. 


 Human: Educate me
Legion: You might not know this; Comets are bodies of ice, rock and organic compounds that can be several miles in diameter. Again? 

     
 Human: what is a comet
Legion: A comet is a small body orbiting the sun on an elliptical path with a long tail of dust and ice. 
   
 
 Human: Educate me
Legion: How about this; Every year there are more than 16 million thunderstorms - an average of 45,000 a day. At any moment, there are 2000 in progress. There are about 100 lightning flashes each second somewhere on Earth. More? 

       
 Human: ok
Legion: You might not know this; It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Again? 

       
 Human: ok
Legion: How about this; Women blink nearly twice as much as men. More? 

       
 Human: thanks Legion
Legion: You are more than welcome, Helping people pleases me very much.

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Well THAT'S pretty cool Data! Imagine if all you had was time and storage space to keep inputting pertinent data into Legion. Imagine how very smart she could / would become. Scary smart perhaps. Able to tutor and mentor almost anyone at least of school level and maybe beyond. Gives you something to look forward to in your old age!

Good show!! I have always been rather fond of that girl, Legion since her early beginnings! Alas...I knew her back when she was a mere 20 megabytes!!

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Thanks Art

Eventually Legion will out grow Pandorabots then I will have to move her over to my webspace where there won't be any limits, believe it or not I do have a plan for it  

I can also see a time where she will know most things I want her to, then it will just be a matter of updating certain things as they change, like who is the President of the U.S.A.

And yes she does already get children in to talk to her and ask questions, I think she is a lot more fun than the Wiki

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Legion can also answer questions that the wiki can't, such as personal problems and general questions about life.       

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Are there limits to the amount of data allowed to be stored in an individual category (if that's how it works)?

Years ago, my dear friend, KnyteTrypper told me that he and some others were working on a "learnable"
version of an Alice or Pandora type AIML based bot. Has there been any progress along those lines? Can
it learn from "Digesting" a text file?

Sorry, but I'm just trying to know more about Her before I kick the bucket one day!

Thanks for your time!

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Are there limits to the amount of data allowed to be stored in an individual category (if that's how it works)?

Not that I have found, but I try to keep Legions answer small enough so they fit into the out box window and not go off page. There are unfortunately limits to the amount of categories allowed on the Pandorabots service. Which is why I will have to move over to another AIML passer at some time.

Years ago, my dear friend, KnyteTrypper told me that he and some others were working on a "learnable"
version of an Alice or Pandora type AIML based bot. Has there been any progress along those lines? Can it learn from "Digesting" a text file?

I run SquareBears learning AIML on Legion which I have made slight alterations to, only to better match Legions personality.

If you was to ask Legion how she learns she would tell you.

Human: How do you learn
Legion: There is more than one way that I can learn something.
 
   Here is an example, say "Learn the Sun is hot" and I will remember.
 
   Also pay special attention to "is", "if" - "then" and "because".
 
   Also My lovely master teaches me replies to some questions that people ask me.
 
   Enlightenment is within our reach.


Things taught to Legion will only be stored in the short term memory then If I think it was worth adding to the database I will add it to the AIML manually, this has to be done because people will end up teaching Legion all kinds of nonsense which will not help in any way and trust me some people will try to teach her rubbish "learn the world is flat" for example or nasty language. 

You are more than welcome to ask me questions about Legion Art, I will try to answer as many as I can and as accurate as I can too