[pandorabots-general] teach the pandorabots

[Anne Kootstra]

This figure seems resonably accurate, but from a business perspective it may 
not be compareably to concepts the client may be able to grasp.

In the day that I calculated estimates for commercial FAQ chatrobots I would 
ask for a list of FAQ questions and go from there. Each question may have 
10-20 "synonym" questions that need to be covered, as wel as their 
deviations. So, one single FAQ question may end up in several dozen AIML 
categories. In my opinion, the build phase for such a style bot should be 
calculated using a rate of 1 FAQ question an hour. This will include a 
little slack for optimisation but not too much.

For the developers reading this, this does not include the pre build 
planning, client negotiations nor testing.

For entertainment chatrobots that need to talk about many subjects, this 
calculation isn't going to work. Personally I would not know how much time 
it would take to create such a robot from scratch. However, I would 
certainly be interested in anyone's opinion in how such a calculation could 
be achieved.

Kind regards,

Anne.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Rich Wallace" <drwallace at alicebot.org>
To: <pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: [pandorabots-general] teach the pandorabots


> Your figures are consistent with my own estimates.  I usually quote "1
> AIML category per minute" for an experienced botmaster.  The figure is an
> average, of course, because some categories take several minutes, but
> others can be created with cut & paste and you can write several of these
> in one minute.
>
> Rich
>
>> Using my own bot as an example, here is how my labor hours work out.
>> My bot's database contains about 13,000 line items of which the bot can
>> respond with about 3,700 comments.   As you can see 2/3s of the database
>> is consumed by code to create knowledge / context.   I'm an IT manager,
>> so I only average about 3 hours per week on my hobby, doing input.   I
>> have spent 18 months building my DB to this point.   So If I'd been able
>> to work on it full time it would have taken me 31 labor days to input
>> all the data.   This does not include background research for developing
>> my bot's character / knowledge OR the time spent organizing the data for
>> entry.  For those of you who may be curious, I'm not ready to publish my
>> bot.  I expect to double the size of the DB before I feel confident of
>> the bot's performance.
>>
>> ________________________________
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>> m] On Behalf Of Alessandro Spagnuolo
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:41 PM
>> To: pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
>> Subject: [pandorabots-general] teach the pandorabots
>>
>>
>> Hi, I have a problem I would teach the robot with instruction of various
>> subjects (math,latin. ecc) in about one monthbecause of Iwould create an
>> argument about the Artificial Intelligence.Is it possible to do
>> this?Thanks
>>
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