Daniel Burke

A.I. systems developer,  Engineer.

1st June 2013
I  entered Aidan into the chatterbox challenge and Loebner competitions. I am not expecting great things as Aidan is not really finished but hope it does OK. There will be many great bot creators in both competitions, Mohan and Bruce to name but two, so competition will be tough.. Download a copy here:
Aidan-install

28th May 2013
I am releasing my new software called Aidan. It is not finished but is in a state that can be released. The database  has reduced in size from 100MGB to 7MB due to a a new mechanism for storage.  The whole thing is not more than 10 meg in size. In many places it is very weak but it does things that surprise even me. I am pleased with it's progress. It has a long way to go bur shows promise.

23rd March 2013.
Working hard on a new chatbot for the Loebner in September, the entry date is in May. only a couple of month left!!!

1st March
Adam and Marti are now retired, their technology is a dead end, so is Zen my Javascript bot for the same reason. I have come up with a new idea.. Lets see if it works.  Roll on This years Loebner and FCE competitions.

26 Jan 2013
Just entered Adam into the International Chatbot Contest. It may be another fake but what the heck.  Adam has had a few tweaks as well as  data purge but is not much different. I don't expect it to do well but it is good to see how the bot performs.

10th Jan 2013
OK, now Christmas is out of the way time to get back t work. I am starting work on a new bot called Kane. This one is different. It's data is arranged in a new way, there is a huge amount of it and I have some ideas about the way to organise it internally. I hope to have something working for this years Lobener.  I want to get away from word triggers and canned responses.

1st December 2012
Marti didn't do that well but the time I spent on it was fun. It has shown me that I still have fundamental faults in the underlying design.

30th October 2012
Putting the final touches to Marti. Marti is my entry to the funniest computer ever competition.  The deadline is the 1st of November and there are 6 entries so far.. Interesting to see how it goes as this is the first competition of it's type.



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