On 3/14/07, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@gmail.com> wrote:
> I ran across this website the other day:
>
> http://www.jabberwacky.com/
>
> It hosts a "learning" AI chatbot that modifies its responses based
> on a growing list of example sentences from which it draws
> generalizations. (I don't know exactly how it works, but it has
I tried it out with Toki Pona, guessing maybe some other
people would have already fed it some Toki Pona sentences
at some point, and sure enough they had -- though I had to
enter several Toki Pona sentences before it finally
started replying to me in Toki Pona. It tried several
other languages first.
Jabberwacky: How are you today?
User: Well enough.
Jabberwacky: I'm depressed.
User: Sorry about that. Do you speak Toki Pona?
Jabberwacky: No I speak english.
User: Please learn.
Jabberwacky: Teach me.
User: O kama sona e toki pona!
Jabberwacky: What?
User: 'Learn Toki Pona!'
Jabberwacky: Pona.
User: Pona a.
{good indeed}
Jabberwacky: Toki.
{hello}
User: Sina ijo sona anu seme?
{I meant to say "are you a knowledge tool (computer)?" but typo'd "are you a
knowledge thing"}
Jabberwacky: English only please.
User: Ike.
{icky}
Jabberwacky: Yeah I know about that.
User: Sina toki lon seme?
{what are you talking about?}
Jabberwacky: Muidugi mis siis.
User: Mi sona ala e toki ni.
{I don't understand that language}
Jabberwacky: La mirada de los osos son impasibles.
User: Mi toki ala e toki Epanja.
{I don't understand Spanish}
Jabberwacky: Péter. Es a tiéd?
User: Mi toki ala e toki Potukala.
[guessing wildly] {I don't understand Portugese.}
Jabberwacky: Hat a tied?
User: Mi sona ala.
Jabberwacky: That means 'I speak Toki Pona'.
User: No, that means 'I don't know.'
Jabberwacky: Then what is 'A E I O U'?
User: Ni li sitelen lili.
{they are letters}
Jabberwacky: : D mis keeles see oli.
User: Toki ante a!
{ah! another language!}
Jabberwacky: Pona! Sina sona e ni: toki pona li toki pona. Mi wile
sona e ni: sina sona ala sona e ijo ante?
{Good! You know this: toki pona is a good language. I want to
know, do you know know anything else?}
User: Mi sona e ijo mute.
{I know a lot of things.}
Jabberwacky: Räägi mulle hinnavaatlusest.
User: Ike a! Toki ante kin!
{ach! yet another language!}
Jabberwacky: Luka ala li pona tawa mi. Ona li pona ala pona tawa sina?
{no hand is pleasing to me. Is it pleasing to you?}
User: Luka li pona tawa mi.
{I like hands.}
User: Mi kepeken mute e luka tu mi.
{I use my two hands a lot.}
Jabberwacky: Yes.
User: Toki!
{Hello!}
Jabberwacky: Sina ijo sona anu seme?
[repeating what I said earlier]
User: Mi jan.
{I'm a human.}
Jabberwacky: Ne, ni ne diris ke vi sxatas min.
[Esperanto] {No, you didn't say you liked me.}
User: Mi ja ne diris tion.
{I sure didn't say that.}
Jabberwacky: Chu vi estas roboto ? Mi estas bona roboto, kiu IA estas.
User: Mi ne estas roboto.
User: Mi estas homo.
Jabberwacky: Ne, vi estas Roboto!
User: Male!
{On the contrary!}
Jabberwacky: Yes, yes,yes, whatever.
User: O toki e toki pona.
{Speak toki pona}
Jabberwacky: Pona seme?
{Good what?}
User: Pona mute.
{Very good.}
Jabberwacky: Ale li pona?
{Is everything good?}
User: Ali li pona mute.
{Everything is very good.}
Jabberwacky: What is mute?
User: Many.
Jabberwacky: Do you record?
User: Mi sona ala.
Jabberwacky: L'amore...:-).
User: O toki e toki pona.
Jabberwacky: Pona mute.
User: Sina toki ike e toki pona.
{You speak toki pona badly.}
Jabberwacky: Ali li pona mute.
User: Sona toki e lon.
{You're saying the truth.}
Jabberwacky: Ala. Sona li pona!
{No. Knowledge is good!}
User: Sina li pona kin. Taso mi toki ala e ni: sona li ike.
{You are good indeed [typo for "knowledge is good indeed"]
But I didn't say that knowledge is bad.}
Jabberwacky: Well, I didn't talk to you!!
User: Mi tawa.
{I'm going.}
Jabberwacky: I forget what that means.
User: 'Mi tawa' means 'Goodbye'.
Jabberwacky: 'goodbye' please.
User: Mi tawa.
Jabberwacky: Which means.
User: Goodbye.
Jabberwacky: My name is Jessica.
[...At which point I gave up for a while.]
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry