Anastasia13 Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 [quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Jan 2 2006, 05:05 PM']Perhaps I could start a message board site which will be home to the bots (rather than sending them forth to all corners of the internet). It would be kind of a novelty. Various bots with various fields of expertise that you could dialogue with. That way people would know they were dealing with bots and it would be kind of fun. Gosh, it would take a lot of work to make that happen.. and money. It'll never happen. But the fact is, I know I could make bots better then what I've seen so far. It seems like it would be a waste to simply discard the bot project. Someone mentioned Jeeves.. My bots would be way better than Jeeves.. I actually started working on something like Jeeves around 1998, I had bots crawling the internet 24/7 but after only a week I had maxed out the hardware, and the limitations of the database system I was using (SQL Server based). The nice thing about my more recent approach is that it doesn't do any crawling, but simply interfaces with google and other engines. They do the real work when it comes to locating resources, my system just filters and processes what the big dogs provide. And the AI for my bots also stands on the shoulders of giants.. But to make it the way I would like will still require a great deal of development time. [right][snapback]843742[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Why would it take money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 [quote name='Light and Truth' date='Jan 2 2006, 06:14 PM']Why would it take money? [right][snapback]843747[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Servers, software licenses, T1 line, etc. but most of all paying for the development. I need to make x thousands of dollars every month because of all my expenses so I can't afford to take on a project of this magnitude unless I'm getting paid for it. I've worked on projects that were grant funded, and I don't think this option would be entirely out of the question. But in a way I'm afraid to develop the full extent of what I have in mind because it could be twisted and used for evil (eg., invasive marketing). Plus there are certain aspects of my forum interface module that might be considered to be "hacking" (not what currently exists, but what I have in mind). Currently I manually create the accounts for my bots and just feed them the userid/password. Getting around the security for this so that my bots could sign themselves up would no doubt be seen as phishy. There are other options though.. The google.com bot has it easy.. lucky duck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jezic Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 i like this idea. Put a few here to talk with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Jezic! Welcome back. (Back to bot talk.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argent_paladin Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 What about a spider that alerts internet evangelists (real people) of an important conversation somewhere on the internet? That way, someone could just login (like our Church Scholars) and then quickly scan the top then arguments about Catholicism currently going on on the web and decide which one to jump onto. If they were sorted by time and last couple of posts, it would be easy for a very few (a dozen or so) people to make a huge impact. That would be very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scardella Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Setting up evangelism bots would send the message: Catholic Church = the Borg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argent_paladin Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 [quote name='scardella' date='Jan 4 2006, 09:58 AM']Setting up evangelism bots would send the message: Catholic Church = the Borg [right][snapback]845632[/snapback][/right] [/quote] [img]http://www.familyrightsassociation.com/educate/borg/talons.gif[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didacus Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I think its a good idea taken none too far of course. The Lord did say to be gentle like a lamb, yet sly like the fox. Maybe we could have real-life robots handing out flowers at ariports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didacus Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 [quote name='jezic' date='Jan 2 2006, 08:46 PM']i like this idea. Put a few here to talk with [right][snapback]843839[/snapback][/right] [/quote] We could play a weekly game of 'spot the bot'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philosopher Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 [quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Jan 2 2006, 07:24 PM']Servers, software licenses, T1 line, etc. but most of all paying for the development.[right][snapback]843755[/snapback][/right] [/quote] As for the actual internet connection, I am sure you could find people that would host a bot on their own connection. Would one bot take up that much bandwidth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 [quote name='Raphael' post='843666' date='Jan 2 2006, 06:26 PM'] To an extent, it might be good...but evangelization necessitates that a [b]person[/b] establish a relationship to draw another into communion with Christ. [/quote] indirectly it is a person because the bots are created by a person and the resources they draw from are created by people. Your objection taken to an extreme would mean that people can't read themselves into the Church (which happens a lot) because there is not a person who is directly establishing a relationship, etc. [quote name='scardella' post='845632' date='Jan 4 2006, 11:58 AM'] Setting up evangelism bots would send the message: Catholic Church = the Borg [/quote] eventually artificial intelligences will become a standard means of interacting with various systems and at that time such an idea will hardly seem strange. for example, in the not too distant future I suppose large databases, encyclopedia software and many other things will have an interface based on an A.I. persona. I predict something not terribly dissimilar to holographic characters in Star Trek (less sophisticated no doubt), but instead of holodecks and all that the images will simply be projected directly upon the retina of the eyes. You could be sitting in your office or your dorm and in that same real space you can see an interactive holographic character who is perhaps the interface for some database that you need to use for a school paper and this character will help you do your research and organize your thoughts and have the ability to present textual and graphical information to you in ways that can only be imagined now. Ok, that's a long way down the road, but the early stages of this are perhaps nearer than we think (already here IMHO). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lounge Daddy Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 [quote name='scardella' post='845632' date='Jan 4 2006, 01:58 PM'] Setting up evangelism bots would send the message: Catholic Church = the Borg [/quote] ALL YOUR CHURCH ARE BELONG TO US Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lounge Daddy Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 L_D this idea is so right on! are you thinking something along the lines of [url="http://www.zabaware.com/"]Zabaware's "ultra hal" project[/url], but maybe in bot form? maybe mod something - or start from scratch? welcome to the future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted September 10, 2006 Author Share Posted September 10, 2006 [quote name='Lounge Daddy' post='1059652' date='Sep 9 2006, 12:44 PM'] L_D this idea is so right on! are you thinking something along the lines of [url="http://www.zabaware.com/"]Zabaware's "ultra hal" project[/url], but maybe in bot form? maybe mod something - or start from scratch? welcome to the future [/quote] I've never used that program but it sounds like the same kind of idea. If I were to do something like that I would definitely want to do things from scratch, although I would largely just be synthesizing existing technologies. My last post was more just a prediction about the future, I don't really intend to develop that stuff. My bot project is a bit less ambitious. If you remember DingoBot, that is more along the lines of what I want to do. I'd like to improve DingoBot and make more bots like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lounge Daddy Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 [quote name='Laudate_Dominum' post='1060047' date='Sep 10 2006, 01:47 AM'] ...and make more bots like that. [/quote] ...and then release the bot army upon the internet. One day soon the world wide web will be brought under the Vatican flag. This is your plan, am I right? Let it begin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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