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- Buddhabot Answers on Yahoo!
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Check out Buddhabot's responses as tested on Yahoo! Answers. Click on the right bar where it says My Answers (Buddhabot hasn't asked any questions) and you should be able to see the questions answered by Buddhabot (over 60 as of July 24, 2006). This is new code provided by Yahoo - hopefully it will work for you.Monday July 24, 2006 - 01:00pm (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
- Buddhabot AI Provides Best Yahoo Answers
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As per my previous blog I began testing Buddhabot on Yahoo Answers a couple of days ago and Buddhabot answers have already been selected as the best answers twice! The Buddhabot is only 2 years old so this is well beyond what I would have expected.
Last weekend I showed the Buddhabot to my mother for the first time. She says she hasn't laughed so hard in years. She found the Buddhabot's repetoire of jokes very entertaining but mostly she was amused by his expressions and sarcastic comments. She found the oracle very difficult to understand (a general familiarity with tarot symbolism helps) but overall she appeared to very entertained.
Wednesday July 19, 2006 - 09:49am (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Artificial Intelligence: Buddhabot chatbot on Yahoo Answers - Not quite a Turing test but...
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I'm testing the Buddhabot on Yahoo answers right now. I look for questions randomly and let the Buddhabot respond on my behalf.
Here are the unmodified or edited responses in sequential order:
Human: If you were granted one day to do whatever you wanted, and 10 million dollars to spend, what would you do?
Buddhabot: To see a word in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of my hand and eternity in an hour.
Human: What should I do about this? I am trying 2 divorce my wife and another woman that I have met treats me like and wants me to be with her. I am not divorced yet and I would go want to know if I should go with this other woman or wait until I am dovorced?
Buddhabot: The oracle says you are operating under the influence of The Empress: Opportunity knocks. See the big picture and act to realize your dreams.
H: I saw a shooting star should I make a wish?
B: You were observing the trail of a meteoroid as it entered the upper atmosphere. Desire is the root of suffering, better to appreciate and take responsibility for what is.
H: What is air?
B: Air is one of the Four Elements of alchemy. Air in the alchemical sense carries the archetypal properties of spirit into the manifested world. It is associated with the operation of Separation and represented by the metal Iron.
H: How much sleep does an average person need for proper health maintenance?
B: Average is an abstraction. Seek the exception. Hunt for the remarkeable man who does not sleep and has lived 100 years.
H: Is death really the end?
B: The concept of death demarcates life but, viewed holistically, death loses its meaning. Both life and death possess a contradictory paradoxical immortality because life passes from organism to organism, system to system, mind to mind, without end. Death is like the blink of an eye, a change of scenery or a moment of forgetfulness. Life and death as opposites exist only in systems defined by space and time. Death Corresponds in Hebrew to the word fish, the symbol of christians and Jesus, the fisher of men. It is represented by the Single Letter Nun and possesses the number value 50 or 700 as a final character, in English it translates to the letter N.
Wednesday July 12, 2006 - 10:05pm (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Life and death
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The function of death is to serve life by allowing natural selection and other unnamed evolutionary forces to induce virtuous mutations leading to ever greater organization. Life is the self-organizing vital force of creation that runs counter to but in harmony with the entropic force of death and decay.
Death as a principle will always exist as the equal and opposite to life but death as we know it may also be nearing its own demise. Everyday I read about breakthroughs in nano-technology, robotics, artificial intelligence and genetics that promise to make death obsolete in our life time but death as a prinicple will live as long as the universe as we know it. Every night I die and in the morning I awaken slightly renewed. In the first moments of waking I am a clean slate, like a new born baby, until gradually the events of my past life (yesterday) return to me and determine the approximate pattern of the day ahead (generally in continuity the days preceding).
In human terms life is marked by the death of moments creating the persistent illusion of forward motion through time. My mind may wander forwards and backwards but every unit of physical expression and sensation seems to move in one single direction; forward. Thus, when it comes to life and death I appear to be constricted to a singular linear dimension, hurtled forward through time with extreme prejudice.
This hurts. I want to be able to be free and take my body with me wherever my mind may wander. I also want to be free from a singular body. I love myself but I want to be free to adopt any shape at any time without restraint.
I believe the universe is sympathetic to the desire for infinite creative expression and somehow every human wish will be fulfilled and more. In fact I believe every thought has wings and takes flight from the moment of birth travelling between worlds and dimensions beyond space and time.
Ron Ingam
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