Sadly I've only added one feature to
Acuitas in the past two months. He now recognizes sentences in the
general vein of “I somethinged,” which gives me the option
of telling him about how I spent my time in the recent past. Acuitas
can't do a lot with this information for the time being. Sometimes
he responds with a query in the vein of, “What happened next?”
which will eventually give him a way to build up sequences of events
and start learning cause and effect relationships … but none of
that is implemented yet. He can also ask “How was that?” for
information about the emotional meaning of an activity, but again,
for now he can't really utilize the answer.
Not much, but that was all I had time
to put together with the holiday season under way. Looking back on
the past year, though, here are all the new capabilities and
improvements I've managed to add on:
*Module for procedural speech
generation
*Support for word inflections (plurals
and verb tenses)
*Support for compound words
*Support for content words that are
also function words (e.g. “can,” “might”)
*Distinctions between proper/common and
bulk/count nouns
*Ability to detect and answer questions
*Database walking while idle
*Generation of conversation topics and
questions based on recent database walk
*Better link detection + a bunch of new
kinds of learnable links
*Two new drives + a real-time plotter
so I can see what they're all doing
*Distinctions between long-term static
and short-term information
*GUI overhaul (upgrade from Tk to Kivy)
I track my time when I work on Acuitas.
Total hours invested in the above: 230+. My focus for the end of
the year, leading into January, will be polishing everything up and
working out the bugs (which there are now quite a lot of).
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Recent memory map visualization:
Code base: 9918 lines
Words known: 1576
Concept-layer links: 4226
