Convun usage by AI Bush

Conversational units a/k/a Convuns are an important conversation building block for EllaZ Systems.  Convuns are fuel for conversation, and are stored in a database where they are classified as jokes, trivia, information, poems, lyrics, limericks, fables, maxims, images, and so on.  

"Do you know any good jokes about lawyers?" may result in "Would you like to hear something funny regarding lawyers, professional courtesy, and snakes?"  A reply of "no, I've heard that one" may result in the offer of a different lawyer joke.  After hearing the joke, you may be asked for your opinion, and the natural language response is saved in a database by AI Bush to eventurally be used in an effort to be a better conversationalist.

Note:  The features below have not been implemented.  However, we are steadily progressing and no insurmountable technical obstacles have yet been discovered. 

First, AI Bush can learn if a joke is any good.  If nobody every likes it, he will progressively decide to use it less and less.  This will allow AI Bush to phase out the bad content, and also phase out information that becomes stale.  Sooner or later people will forget about the Jennifer Lopez dress. 

Second, whether you like the joke, image, or whatever type of Convun tells AI Bush something about you.  He will use various techniques to make a better offer in the future.  Perhaps he will realize that you just don't like poetry and keep such suggestions to a minimum.  He could compare your patterns of interests with others that have similar patterns of interest to help him do this.

Third, the patterns of interests he learns about you will be useful useful in his conversations with others.  The number of visitors, the lengths of conversations, and the size of the convun database will collectively need to reach a critical mass in order for the system to be effective.  

Fourth, AI Bush could make suggestions to his handlers about weaknesses in his convun database.  If dozens of requests for Red Skelton jokes are going unfilled, AI Bush will be hungry for some rather specific data.

Finally, as the convun databases grow and AI Bush has larger amounts of data about people's interests, more analytical opportunities will present themselves.  Hopefully this will be the basis for ever more sophisticated and powerful AI implementations and AI Bush's deeper understanding of the human condition.  This system provides a potential test bed for advanced AI methods.