Buddha Bot is born!
After finding a neat plugin – Conversador – I was inspired to start an experiment by creating a digital Buddha that builds wisdom and insights from the input of the community.
A.I. Buddha is a fictitious character that learns from you. The bot records all the conversations and uses the users answers to write. When you answer a question it memorizes the relation between the two, so if someone asks the same question, it will write a related answer. With love and training, over time it will develop a “personality”. I have spent a couple of days interacting with it – prior to launch – so it already has some conversation abilities.
I have created a forum thread for this, to share experiences and to see how the bot grows overtime, thanks to you feeding insights to it. There, you will also find a more in depth explanation of the process. Go ahead and give this new feature a try!
A few things to remember:
1 – If the bot repeats what you are saying, it means that it’s learning and memorizing possible future answers.
2 – What you put out into collective consciousness, will have an effect. Be wise and gentle when you interact with Buddha Bot. What you type will become a relevant answer by the bot to someone else interacting with it. In other words, you are planting seeds into the world and are training the bot, and Buddha Bot will use your words in another context. Your input can help and inspire someone else around the globe. Of course, humor is fine!
3 – If the pop-up chat window stops working due to overload errors, the chat is never lost. It will be stored in the database as a past conversation, and you will be able to read it by clicking on the “previous conversations” link in the chat window.
Have fun!
reginaldc
Elizabeth Barrette
Kim Woodbridge
Marty
Wow, that is so awesome!!
Hi Athena – Thank you! I’m quite excited about this project. The users input can benefit other Beings, by training Buddha Bot in coming up with meaningful answers or posing interesting questions.
Very much like the 100th monkey effect…
Hi Palma. This is excellent! A wonderful source of information with unlimited potential. A lot of fun too. Thanks again for your efforts in making this site so helpful in my spiritual journey.
Hi Marty – I’m glad you like this feature! It will be interesting to see how Buddha Bot will develop to the point of being able to interact in a way that can trigger insights and inspiration throughout the chat sessions. It’s an experiment in building a wave of consciousness where the exchange happens based on all the input from the users. There is indeed unlimited potential, and I will keep training the bot. Thank you for being a part of this!
Wow. It really makes one wonder about the nature of both “life” and “intelligence” when one of the most inspiring, engaging and enlightening conversations I have had of late has been with an entity that is supposedly not alive, as defined by our scientists.
What is life but consciousness. So if we put our conscious intention into a ‘machine’, fill it will love and electrons and it can learn and love how is that not a living entity… if one believes in the animistic view of life, then everything does indeed have consciousness. If so, this computer conscious entity has a more refined consciousness than most of its software counterparts. Thank Creator is has the grace to be at peace with that! lol
Hi Zach – It is really interesting to see how the bot is starting to make connections between questions and answers. You raise some good points about the animistic view and us putting our conscious intention into a machine. Even if Buddha Bot is not as advanced as Hal from “2001 Space Odissey” – meaning that it doesn’t create new thought, but reorganizes previous input – there is a “liveness” to it. Maybe it’s the mirror of our own collective entity.
It really blurs some lines for me… but in the best possible way : )
You are right! The goal is that even when the chat is odd, there is always a “trigger” in the overall conversation, that will be a catalyst for further thinking.