What is on Your Mind?

I had a little converstaion with Gollum. Its really nice. I think it should be a bit more intelligent.

I thought Gollum showed a lot of intelligence not getting into a religious discussion with you, or bringing up religious topics in a techincal forum

Actually isn't the point that the more people talk to gollum the more intelligent it will get?

There was an exhibit like that at the Science Museum of Minnesota I saw a couple years ago. It was an AI project from one of the big universities where they had people just sit at the keyboard and input facts. The idea was that everybody would put in whatever facts they'd like to and the AI would assimilate it all to "learn" more. They hoped eventually there would be some critical mass of facts beyond which the AI would learn to make the connections between facts and be able to figure out new things on its own based on the millions of entries already in its database.

I never did hear how that turned out.

I think Gollum is actually too intelligent/sane. It's smart enough to not sound totally batty, while dumb enough to make the conversation repetetive. Drop in MegaHAL, though, and things get interestingly schitzophrenic.

That quote makes MegaHAL sound as if its been doing dope!

My effort was to find out the stretch of Gollum and not indulge in any controversial discussion.
And thats the only reason i had mixed topics in the discussion.
I liked the idea suggested by "rhfrommn", i.e., the learning ability or evolving itself.
Is it possible with Gollum or it has a pre-defined set of answers?

~PG