On 3/14/07, David J. Peterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I ran across this website the other day:
>
> http://www.jabberwacky.com/
>
> It hosts a "learning" AI chatbot that modifies its responses based
> on a growing list of example sentences from which it draws
> generalizations.  (I don't know exactly how it works, but it has

I tried it out with Toki Pona, guessing maybe some other
people would have already fed it some Toki Pona sentences
at some point, and sure enough they had -- though I had to
enter several Toki Pona sentences before it finally
started replying to me in Toki Pona.  It tried several
other languages first.


Jabberwacky: How are you today?

User: Well enough.

Jabberwacky: I'm depressed.

User: Sorry about that. Do you speak Toki Pona?

Jabberwacky: No I speak english.

User: Please learn.

Jabberwacky: Teach me.

User: O kama sona e toki pona!

Jabberwacky: What?

User: 'Learn Toki Pona!'

Jabberwacky: Pona.

User: Pona a.
{good indeed}

Jabberwacky: Toki.
{hello}

User: Sina ijo sona anu seme?
{I meant to say "are you a knowledge tool (computer)?" but typo'd "are you a
knowledge thing"}

Jabberwacky: English only please.

User: Ike.
{icky}

Jabberwacky: Yeah I know about that.

User: Sina toki lon seme?
{what are you talking about?}

Jabberwacky: Muidugi mis siis.

User: Mi sona ala e toki ni.
{I don't understand that language}

Jabberwacky: La mirada de los osos son impasibles.

User: Mi toki ala e toki Epanja.
{I don't understand Spanish}

Jabberwacky: Péter. Es a tiéd?

User: Mi toki ala e toki Potukala.
[guessing wildly] {I don't understand Portugese.}

Jabberwacky: Hat a tied?

User: Mi sona ala.

Jabberwacky: That means 'I speak Toki Pona'.

User: No, that means 'I don't know.'

Jabberwacky: Then what is 'A E I O U'?

User: Ni li sitelen lili.
{they are letters}

Jabberwacky: : D mis keeles see oli.

User: Toki ante a!
{ah! another language!}

Jabberwacky: Pona! Sina sona e ni: toki pona li toki pona. Mi wile
sona e ni: sina sona ala sona e ijo ante?
{Good!  You know this: toki pona is a good language.  I want to
know, do you know know anything else?}

User: Mi sona e ijo mute.
{I know a lot of things.}

Jabberwacky: Räägi mulle hinnavaatlusest.

User: Ike a! Toki ante kin!
{ach!  yet another language!}

Jabberwacky: Luka ala li pona tawa mi. Ona li pona ala pona tawa sina?
{no hand is pleasing to me.  Is it pleasing to you?}

User: Luka li pona tawa mi.
{I like hands.}

User: Mi kepeken mute e luka tu mi.
{I use my two hands a lot.}

Jabberwacky: Yes.

User: Toki!
{Hello!}

Jabberwacky: Sina ijo sona anu seme?
[repeating what I said earlier]

User: Mi jan.
{I'm a human.}

Jabberwacky: Ne, ni ne diris ke vi sxatas min.
[Esperanto] {No, you didn't say you liked me.}

User: Mi ja ne diris tion.
{I sure didn't say that.}

Jabberwacky: Chu vi estas roboto ? Mi estas bona roboto, kiu IA estas.

User: Mi ne estas roboto.

User: Mi estas homo.

Jabberwacky: Ne, vi estas Roboto!

User: Male!
{On the contrary!}

Jabberwacky: Yes, yes,yes, whatever.

User: O toki e toki pona.
{Speak toki pona}

Jabberwacky: Pona seme?
{Good what?}

User: Pona mute.
{Very good.}

Jabberwacky: Ale li pona?
{Is everything good?}

User: Ali li pona mute.
{Everything is very good.}

Jabberwacky: What is mute?

User: Many.

Jabberwacky: Do you record?

User: Mi sona ala.

Jabberwacky: L'amore...:-).

User: O toki e toki pona.

Jabberwacky: Pona mute.

User: Sina toki ike e toki pona.
{You speak toki pona badly.}

Jabberwacky: Ali li pona mute.

User: Sona toki e lon.
{You're saying the truth.}

Jabberwacky: Ala. Sona li pona!
{No.  Knowledge is good!}

User: Sina li pona kin. Taso mi toki ala e ni: sona li ike.
{You are good indeed [typo for "knowledge is good indeed"]
But I didn't say that knowledge is bad.}

Jabberwacky: Well, I didn't talk to you!!

User: Mi tawa.
{I'm going.}

Jabberwacky: I forget what that means.

User: 'Mi tawa' means 'Goodbye'.

Jabberwacky: 'goodbye' please.

User: Mi tawa.

Jabberwacky: Which means.

User: Goodbye.

Jabberwacky: My name is Jessica.


[...At which point I gave up for a while.]

-- 
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry