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"Eve" automatically reads, sorts and generate new knowledge and/or content.

totopoetry.com

61 pointstimruffles17 comments

Heh, a "collection of automation programs". I've also put together something like this and called it "Sentinel". It's not smart, it just does all the repetitive tasks (relentless, 24/7, a human couldn't do it) and any computer tasks that can be broken down in simple steps.

It can farm for content and rewrite it, sort my mail and send replies, start backup and sync tasks, start remote maintenance scripts, notify me by SMS, email or calls, has TTS and voice recognition, can check articles for uniqueness, scan for duplicate files, search for anything locally, create articles from templates, and more.

But it's just a bunch of programs running inside a VM that's connected to the host machine using a few shared folders, LAN and remote desktop - anyone can whip up something like it...

Sounds cool. You don't happen to have the code available somewhere do you?

As I said, it's just a VM with programs and scripts/macros.

Thunderbird is used for handling emails, Windows 7 TTS for speech (notifications), Skype for calls and SMS, Firefox for Web tasks, Word (with a ton of macros) for working with text, Win7 search, Ransack and Notepad++ for deep search within the local drives/files, etc.

The most important component for me is actually WinAutomation (alternatives - Automate, AutomationAnywhere, others), which makes it possible to easily connect all these programs and run complex tasks.

Plus bash scripts on the Linux server, and it works quite well.

It's very specific for my needs, though - I doubt sharing the VM would help anyone, aside from seeing how it all works...

Cool, thanks. Yeah, that's mainly why i'd be interested in seeing it. Working on something that is fairly similar.

Looking at the results, I get the impression that "Eve"'s abilities are being oversold a smigden: http://www.totopoetry.com/search.asp?word=cow

Ooh great, the holy grail of content farmers. Say goodbye to any good content on the Internet after Wordpress network ops find out about this.

Ok, not sure of the point of this. Is there somewhere to see it in action or look at code, or is this purely a description of a concept?

I thought it was an interesting sci-fi story at first. It still might be.

And this is the beginning of economic entity 2.0: a Self Managing, Self Optimizing, Economic program, that also happens to provide the service that makes it money. Humans are only needed to read the instructions, replace the parts, and satisfy the legal system (or well, in this case, design and build the thing)

There once was a bot we'll call Eve

Whose random poetry failed to achieve

T'was without any malice

Thinking better was Alice

With the Loebner prize safe as can be

Here's a link to ask her questions to which the answers are supposed to be coming from the dictionary itself. http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/eve/time However when asked any questions she seems to be under maintenance.

ask her about cats, she goes on for a few pages.

This is absolutely fascinating, but how do we actually interact with eve? How does she actually work? Where is she running?

Where exactly is Eve? All I can find is this poetry database.

Is there an API available so one could use eve on their website/app?

Guys, Eve isn't a real thing...

I read this and think "The singularity is coming!!" Next skynet will come online

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