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Aliza [message #97189]

Mon, 13 November 2023 09:34

Wayne Parham
Messages: 18605
Registered: January 2001

Illuminati (33rd Degree)

I've just released a fun little chatbot. As a nod to Weizenbaum's Eliza program, I've called it "Aliza."

If you don't know "Eliza" or who Joseph Weizenbaum was, ask Aliza.

You can reach it at any of these locations:

Right now, it has just the "standard" training included in gpt-3.5, which includes a bunch of data gathered up until around June 2021. So it can answer a lot of questions and be somewhat accurate on several topics. But then again, it lacks information on some things and where it lacks information, it will literally make stuff up. So keep that in mind when you interact with it.

I've done this largely as an experiment in large language model transformer-based AI. Specifically what I want to know is how much better I can train it in acoustics, and specifically on the details of Pi Speakers and recommended setups.

It already "knows" a lot about Pi Speakers, things like the fact that most models use waveguides, that I am the one that designed them, that they are high-efficiency designs and so on. But it doesn't know things like the part number of the waveguide, the proper use of flanking subs, the descriptions of the models, etc. So I will spend some time over the next few months fine-tuning a GPT dataset to give it this information.

The tricky thing about transformer-based large language models is that they know only words. The phrase, "a picture is worth a thousand words" falls on deaf ears here. Well, not exactly; A transformer will gobble up that phrase. And it can spit it back out to you quite elegantly but it has no idea what you are talking about. My point is that these chatbots have no "mental model" of the world. They have only mental models of words. So to teach them concepts that are best described with pictures is more difficult. You have to use your words.

More about AI, if you're interested:

Artificial Intelligence - a brief introduction

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Re: Aliza [message #97190 is a reply to message #97189]

Mon, 13 November 2023 10:59

Rusty
Messages: 1015
Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri

Illuminati (2nd Degree)

So far Wayne, it won't load up with my crummy laptop. Times out. That's some heady stuff, teaching software to "think". Do the advanced programs and hardware have some sense of self, some perception of their origin? Maybe that's the goal towards autonomy in research and development of this AI. For now, I just would like some better AI interface with closed caption to be able to keep up with the spoken word in news broadcast. It seriously lags and misspells and throws out butchered words that I'd think it would be able to check. That line of software must be on the budget side.

One thing Wayne. You're like Nadine of Chuck Berry's song. Always up to somethin new.

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Re: Aliza [message #97191 is a reply to message #97190]

Mon, 13 November 2023 14:23

Wayne Parham
Messages: 18605
Registered: January 2001

Illuminati (33rd Degree)

I've always loved neural networks, but they're finicky like people are. I think largely for the same reasons too. I think neural networks are great for things like learning minuscule muscle/motor movements needed for walking, running and acrobatics of all sorts. I also think they're good for making decisions without having all the relevant facts. But that very thing is also what makes them kind of error prone. If they're good at making inferences, that means they're good at guessing - whether right or wrong. And that isn't typically what people expect of computers.

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