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Alchemy – Open Source AI
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- stephenhess 11y agoRelated? http://www.alchemyapi.com/ http://www.alchemyapi.com/
- hayksaakian 11y agono, the one you linked is an analysis API -- now owned by IBM
- sbarre 11y agoYeah slightly confusing naming because Alchemy APIs (owned by IBM now) is promoted alongside the Watson APIs which are in the same general space as this project..
- syllogism 11y agoThe NLP group at Washington is one of the best in the world (imo likely top 5), and did most of the seminal work on open information extraction, the technologies backing this service. I'm surprised they chose this name. The commercial service, AlchemyAPI, that was bought by IBM is likely to be much less accurate. I can't say for sure, though --- their terms of service prohibit evaluation. All I know is, that's not a good sign...
- t45 11y agoAlchemy was launched much ealier than AlchemyAPI.
- syllogism 11y agoVery interesting!! I had no idea.
- nl 11y agoWashington's Open Information Extraction project - Ollie[1] - is really, really good. For example I've found it much more effective that the OpenIE tool in Stanford CoreNLP. I think Alchemy is pretty old though? Most people seem to use Tuffy for MLN now. [1] https://github.com/knowitall/ollie https://github.com/knowitall/ollie
- svalorzen 11y agoShameless self-promotion post: if you're interested in AI based on Markov, I maintain an open-source library here https://github.com/Svalorzen/AI-Toolbox https://github.com/Svalorzen/AI-Toolbox. It can be used for general autonomous agents which need to act in response to environmental stimuli. I've used it to learn to play StarCraft and to control cameras to predict people's movements around buildings. Any comments and suggestions are welcome =)
- detaro 11y ago> I've used it to learn to play StarCraft and to control cameras to predict people's movements around buildings. If you've described / published either of these examples somewhere, you should submit them to HN!
- svalorzen 11y agoI actually have a video [0] and code [1] of the first (which was a one-month project), while the second is my thesis which is going to be finished soon. Maybe I'll post them as a separate entry one day, but I always think these things are too simple and trivial to be interesting.. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrKMBIR82Qw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrKMBIR82Qw [1]: https://github.com/Svalorzen/DESOLATOR https://github.com/Svalorzen/DESOLATOR
- nickpsecurity 11y agoLoved watching the Dragoons dance around their opponents while taking almost no damage. They seemed to have slipped a few times where they could've doubled up on fire but just one was firing instead. I might have looked at it wrong though.
- denniskane 11y agoThank you for this, I will look into it :). I was actually going to tell these people to give me a github link or go away, haha. I don't need any kind of license page that looks like http://alchemy.cs.washington.edu/license.php?action=2 http://alchemy.cs.washington.edu/license.php?action=2, thank you very much! By the way, you can talk to my AI guy if you have a recent Chrome/Chromium browser. It is actually an entire OS in a browser, and the AI guy is an app called Bertie. My current implementation of the OS is called "The Native Client Proving Ground", and can be found here: https://nacl-pg.appspot.com/desk https://nacl-pg.appspot.com/desk. The OS should install in less than 2 seconds after clicking the link. Then you just open the Applications folder and click on Bertie's face. He will then introduce himself, and you can start talking to him.
- kimi 11y agoThe project looks dead. Last updates in 2013?
- r0muald 11y agoThis doesn't seem so uncommon for big projects at that department. I'm thinking for example about all the various tools developed by Noah Snavely and colleagues for the Photo Tourism project http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/ http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/ , that were later acquired by Microsoft for their Photosynth branded tools.
- kimi 11y agoBeautiful plumage, sir.
- nl 11y agoRelated: http://i.stanford.edu/hazy/tuffy/ http://i.stanford.edu/hazy/tuffy/ Tuffy is used in DeepDive[1], which is a very interesting project. [1] http://deepdive.stanford.edu/doc/advanced/markov_logic_network.html http://deepdive.stanford.edu/doc/advanced/markov_logic_netwo...
- mooreds 11y agoWeird. I submitted this yesterday. Must have been the capitalization that got me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10630551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10630551 Anyway, just read "The Master Algorithm" by Pedro Domingoes. Fantastic read. The most interesting part to me was his survey of the five tribes of machine learning: symbolists, connectionists, geneticists, Bayesians and analogists. After the survey he goes on to talk about some other aspects. And then discusses Alchemy and the possibility of uniting the techniques of all five tribes into one algorithm (hence the title). I found his writing on a dense subject easy to read and great at conveying the concepts. Well worth checking out. Edited for typos
- placeybordeaux 11y agoI couldn't get past the introduction of "The Master Algorithm", is the rest of the book a bit more grounded?
- mooreds 11y agoThe introduction is a bit breathless, but most of the rest of the book is more down to earth.
- TerryADavis 11y agoLet's put a markov chain AI on a SETI antenna! That will be awesome!