KARI 3.8 PRO

This is the PRO section.

 

Mind Tweak

Lets take a look at the main PRO interface panel - Mind Tweak. Here we have a variety of sliders that control different threshhold values at the heart of the Ai engine.

Let go over them one by one.

 

MINIMUM RELEVANCE THRESH SLIDER

This slider controls the minimum relevance threshhold the engine will accept for any comment. If the slider is set to 20 and a comment in memory returns 10, for example, it will be discarded. A comment must return this value or greater to even be counted for final choosing.

There are a few things that determines how a sentence is given a value. "Stay On Topic" and "Related Topics" sliders are two of them.

If the On Topic slider is set to 20 that means that if a sentence in memory has the same topic as your the sentence you just typed in - the engine will add 20 to that sentence. The same goes for the Related slider. If the Related slider is set to 10 it will add 10 to a sentence which is related to the one you and Kari are talking about.

 

If the sentence is both on topic and related it will add 30 to the value. Since the Minimum Relavance is set to 10 for example the sentence will be counted. At the end of the search the one sentence with the most value will be displayed.

 

RELATED TOPICS SLIDER

This slider is in direct communication with the Related Plugin and Kari's Relevant Words Dictionary. Lets take a look at the Related Plugin so that we can make sense of this.

When we click the Related button the Related Plugin Appears. In here you will find Kari's internal relation dictionary. You can change or delete any relation simply by clicking on it and using the appropriate buttons.

So back to the slider! The Related Topic Slider will control the value amount that is given to a word relation in memory while Kari is sorting relevance. A high value will give a sentences with these words more value in the sorting. So if you are talking about "I love animals." a sentence about "cats" will have more value than all the other ones because animal and cat are related in the relation dictionary. That is how the Relation Dictionary works. And with this slider you can adjust how much value is given to a comment with a relation.

STAY ON TOPIC SLIDER

This is the value that is given to each sentence in memory if it has the same words as the user's message. This is very useful for keeping Kari on topic. You might want a brain that stays really on topic... so adjust this slider.

Tip: Amounts and values are not really important. It's the ratios that count and how one value is in relation to another. For example these would have the same effect:

Minimum Relevance: 4 , Stay On Topic: 5 , Related: 3

Minimum Relevance: 8 , Stay On Topic: 10, Related: 6

...because they have the same ratio.

 

WORDIMAGE PLUGIN

This is a fun little plugin that will pop up images of what you have been talking about. Simply add any .bmp or .jpg image to WordImages directory found in " Library/Application Support/Kari 3 Virtual Girlfriend". Each image must be given a set of keywords so that Kari knows what you are talking about. Each word must be typed into the text box followed by a comma. Then click Save to save your image words.

To turn this plugin ON, click on the on/off checkbox in the upper left. Start talking to Kari. It may take a comment or two for it to activate and you must be talking about one of the keywords you typed in. When an image pops up it will be displayed in the chat window:

 

WORD WEIGHTS

New in Kari 3.1 are Word Weights. These are special type of word relations. It analyzes your Kari for senteces and words that are related and makes a sort of matrix. They give your personality a sort of "soft-padding". We've found it gives our Karis a more human-like aspect. They don't sound so robotic! Most of it is handled internally but before you can use it you need to process your personality. Click START and wait. Depending on your personality this can take up to several minutes and should be left alone while its processing. This will scan your personality and extract custom word weights indicative of you and your Kari's personalities.

You can change the Word Weight Multiplier by moving the slider. This is the value that will be taken into account in the Relavance equation. You don't want to flood your Kari with too much Word Weight value or she will start going off topic. With Word Weights Kari will be able to relate concepts together and topics that are close to or talking about the same thing.

Use Word Weight Depth slider to tell Kari how deep into the matrix to search for relations. If you have a slow computer you might want to lower this slider.

 

 

 

 

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