Hi arckon,

actually, I have had the idea of starting some such project on my own recently...
What you do sounds very interesting. (actually I had some very similar ideas ;) -
though not nearly enough time to do much at the moment)

Have you given some thought to using (interfacing to) software that already exists? I
mean you could try to use prolog as the logical reasoning part of Arckon (don't know
whether that's possible but I think it should) and maybe add other types(?) of
reasoning...

Anyway in my opinion the learning of analogies should be very important...

Good luck and I hope one day I'll be able to have a look at what you produce ;)

Cheers, K

well, I suppose if people are trying to make the same thing, their ideas will be quite similar as well.
Today is the 28th day that I have done actual work on my AI, and I appear to be somewhat stuck in thoughts. HIS thoughts to be exact, since I have given him thoughts, so I can keep track of his reasoning processes.
I have not considered using any available programs for his reasoning skills or such important matters. I am merely trying to re-invent the wheel. another reason for this is that I do not know the inner workings of those programs by heart, allowing for unacceptable errors, were I to implement them. Software for voice control and such secundary functions however, I do aim on using in the end. Since they already exist, there is no reason for me to create them again.
I estimate it will be another 60 days of work or so before you would actually be able to say "hey, this really is something.". At the moment, everything is very limited. especially his choise and knowledge of words.
*sigh* now, onto my current major problem; how to link two or more seperate thoughts together to form a sentence, and more importantly, to determine which of those thoughts provides the actual point of the sentence. I'll figure it out somehow.