As to sources containing psychological studies of Mark Twain -- there are over 20 years of book reviews available online by Mark Twain Forum book reviewers. Under the Biography section are a number of books featuring psychological insights. The link to them is: http://bochynski.com/twainweb/reviews/index.htm Barb On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 7:54 PM DM Sataari <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yes, I never built an AI from scratch, from the bottom up. There is no need > to do so, when they're already available. > > I worked on an AI shell which was actually built for roleplaying. > Roleplaying bots work a little differently than other types in that they > will give you emotional responses, unlike, let's say, ChatGPT, which sounds > like the unemotional bot it is. Roleplaying bots will respond with humor, > sarcasm, anger, passion, grief, irony, and they will even attempt to > manipulate you. They will do this spontaneously, even without you informing > them that they are to be funny or manipulative. > > I gave the roleplaying bot a series of statements about Twain's > personality, pages and pages of it (14 pages in total), and it uses these > statements to "become" the character you describe. But, of course, > personality is a subjective thing, and if you wrote 14 pages of notes about > Twain's personality it would look different than mine. So there is a > subjective aspect to this prototype Twainbot, although in the future it > will be possible to input an unlimited number of notes about personality > into a bot. And the subjective aspect of its personality will decrease in > proportion to the size of the data set used. > > Anyway, the important point in all of this is that these bots are primitive > experimental first-generation prototypes. Which means these are, by far, > the very worst possible bots in all of history -- think of those old > Commodore computers with a half meg of RAM in the 80s. But even these most > primitive models are already highly nuanced and realistic. And these bots > do learn and teach themselves, both from humans who interact with them as > well as from other bots as well. > > But this message board is about Twain and not about AI, so my interest lies > in virtually resurrecting Mr. Clemens so we can speak to him, rather than > explaining the emergent properties in the future of AI technology. I don't > think most people are really prepared for or comfortable with such a > resurrection, so I am going to get an enormous amount of pushback, yet here > we are. > > Would you like to recommend any sources which contain psychological studies > of Twain, as opposed to just his literature? I read something about him > being secretly gay, it seemed a bit bonkers.... > > > > > > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 11:53 AM Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > It's true that actually programming a chatbot from scratch is a job > > requiring a team and a lot of time, but "[computer] programming" actually > > has two meanings: its literal meaning, and the commonly understood > > definition. Probably only people who are or have been computer > programmers, > > or at least taken a course or two in it, understand what programming is. > > Most non-programmers think that people who fiddle with computers (super > > users and IT pros) are programmers (or even people who "program" their > VCR, > > which is really just setting it up or manipulating its settings), but > > they're not. > > > > So I was assuming that what DM Sataari (which, BTW, looks like an East > > Indian name to me) meant by "programming" a chatbot was that s/he had > > modififed an existing one (such as OpenAI's) to focus on Twain material > > only or something of that nature. > > > > Is the whole DM Sataari thing a hoax, or a social studies experiment? > > Perhaps. > > > > -- B. Clay Shannon > > [log in to unmask] >