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⬐ maheshcr

Not sure how but I almost thought this engine would recognise speech and carry out actions.

The demo is nice. That said, SQL Server had a language processing plugin which could translate normal text to a SQL query, this was back in the days.

Which languages do you support?

⬐ psygnisfive

Speech processing is a secondary issue. Others are working on it, and it's basically a solved problem for the most part.

I don't know about SQL's natural language support, so I won't comment.

As for languages, the technology is independent of particular languages, so you can in principle add modules for, say, core Mandarin vocabulary, and then write your apps for Mandarin. I only speak English, however, so I can only add core vocab for that. :\

⬐ LukeB_UK

Any update in it's availability? It says late 2014 but nothing else.

⬐ psygnisfive

What? I don't know what you're talking about. ::whistles innocently::

Getting it to a state, even the minimal one, where it's ready for launch has taken slightly longer than expected. :(

Right now I'm reworking the API a little bit. I realized that the means of specifying new vocabulary for it was not at all friendly for coders who don't have lots of type theory background. I have a new way of doing this that I think will work, and it'll be up hopefully within a few weeks.

⬐ benmcnelly

Do you have any examples of the new API direction yet?

⬐ psygnisfive

I'm working to make it so that there's basically no real API for the vocabulary at all, you just use a little widget on the site to specify exactly the relevant functionality your app supports, and how the word realizes that, with nice visual linkages. LE will then pull that info into the logical formalism. No API needed, just some clicks.

Ideally, it should be so simple that I can make a 2 minute video of it and by the end, you'll think "well that was obvious", as opposed to "ugh now I have to learn type theory? ffs"

I did a dopey little sketch on of the idea, fwiw https://twitter.com/psygnisfive/status/558287230662615040

⬐ enoshben

Nice. What are your ambitions with this project?

⬐ psygnisfive

I wrote a blog post sort of explaining it all http://www.languagengine.co/blog/you-must-be-nuts/

⬐ mpnordland

Is this a local server or is a remote service?

⬐ psygnisfive

The bulk of it will be in the cloud. Aside from letting me make improvements that then get reflected in all apps LE is embedded in without updates to them, it also lets developers add new vocabulary and conversation patterns that they missed before, so that they can actually make their app's AI better without users having to update.

There are also interesting possibilities of cross-pollinating apps, so that as more developers use LE, its out-of-the-box capabilities grow. There's no reason, for instance, that developers should be re-inventing the wheel each time someone builds an app or a robot or whatever. Imagine if every human was born with the cumulative knowledge and skills of all previous humans. Now imagine you can do that with AI.

⬐ suyash

Do you really call this a game changer AI app? I've hacked up much more powerful script for bash and OSX doing way complicated operations.

⬐ cfontes

mind sharing it?

⬐ wildpeaks

You might like Hubot: https://hubot.github.com/

⬐ tel

Is there a goal to add speech processing atop this?

⬐ psygnisfive

Since most (all?) devices now have speech recognition built in, this'll plug into those easily. I'm also going to let developers plug their own in if they have better stuff than Google etc

⬐ tel

You could use your parser as a language model to improve recognition along the lines of things that would actually parse correctly, I suppose. That's probably much of a micro-optimization, though.