Gopher’s (OTCQB: $GOPH) Avant! AI
Answers User Questions About Stock Market, #Bitcoin, #Cannabis , Apple’s (
$AAPL) Siri and More
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Gopher Protocol Inc’s (OTCQB:GOPH) Avant! AI system debuted as an assistant agent on Facebook (NasdaqGS:FB) one week ago, and it has already
garnered considerable attention. Company CTO Dr. Danny Rittman explained how his
AI creation, Avant! actually crashed briefly after experiencing half a million
users in traffic.
Dr. Rittman, the
creator of Avant!, is a semiconductor designer with over twenty
years of experience with companies such as Intel (NasdaqGS:INTC),
DEC, IBM (NYSE:IBM), and
Qualcomm (NasdaqGS: QCOM).
He has worked on many prestigious Integrated Circuits projects; among them
Intel's Pentium Pro, DEC's Alpha chip, and others. Danny was the founder and
CTO of BindKey Technologies, an EDA corporation that was acquired by DuPont
Photo masks.
Danny , speaking like a proud parent of his
child said, ““Last week we had a peak of about 500K
users, asking questions at the same time. Avant! servers were not ready for it
and crashed, leading rain of emails of concerned users, about when Avant! will
be back,” he said. “When we had a peak of many users at the same time, users
started to wait long times for answers and then they reported to us. Soon after
that the servers simply crashed due to the overwhelming interest!”
“We see this as a
very positive "crash". Avant! is a star!”
He continued, “Since
then we upgraded our servers and probably will upgrade them soon again.”
What follows are some
examples of user questions, and Avant!’s answers to them:
Q: What is the stock market?
Avant!: A stock market, equity
market or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks,
which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities
listed on a public stock exchange, as well as stock that is only traded
privately.
Q: What
is cannabis?
Avant!: Cannabis, also known as marijuana
among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant used for
medical or recreational purposes. The main psychoactive part of cannabis is
tetrahydrocannabinol, one of 483 known compounds in the plant, including at
least 65 other cannabinoids.
Part(s) of
plant: Flower
Source
plant(s): Cannabis sativa, Cannabis sativa forma indica, Cannabis ruderalis
Geographic
origin: Central Asia and Indian subcontinent
People also
search for: Cocaine, Hashish, Tetrahydrocannabinol, More
Q: Who
is Siri?
Avant!: On Friday, CNN revealed that
voice actor Susan Bennett is the voice behind Siri, Apple's personal assistant
on iPhones and iPads. “I'm the actor who provided the voice for Siri,” she told
CNN. Bennett said she didn't know she voiced Siri until Apple integrated it
into the iPhone in 2011.
Q: What
is Bitcoin?
Avant!: Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a
form of electronic cash. It is a decentralized digital currency without a
central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user-to-user on the
peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.
Initial release: 0.1.0 / 9 January
2009 (9 years ago)
Ledger start: 3 January 2009 (9 years
ago)
Coins: Unspent outputs of
transactions (in multiples of a satoshi)
Supply limit: ₿21,000,000
Founder: Satoshi Nakamoto
Programming language: C++
Though still a
young AI, one can glean an already impressive level of specificity in Avant!’s
answers, perhaps particularly “Who is Siri?”. Users might have expected Avant!
to opt for an explanation of what
Siri is from a technological standpoint, but it clearly responded to the exact
language used to formulate the question. Dr. Rittman explained how Avant! works
and how this accuracy is achieved.
“When a question is asked, Avant! is searching
hundreds of thousands (or millions if necessary), websites for information
about the topic,” he said. “Then it digs further, inside these sites, analyzing
their info, its accuracy, validity and authenticity. If needed, the info found
is compared to other sites. Avant! produces results and narrowing the number of
websites, to about 100 with the best knowledge about the asked topic. Then
another analysis cycle is executed on these sites, narrowing to 10 most
relevant web site and from these Avant! collects/presents the best info. All
this is done fast, within seconds.”
Dr. Rittman explained how the latest Avant!
version’s private user system allows a personalized storage of data, making it
particularly useful for professionals.
“Now, that it has
private user system, professionals and individuals can use Avant! for their
benefits 24/7,” he said. “For example, Medical Doctors can keep knowledge base
system of their own about their medical field. In addition to the fact that
they can ask Avant! about a specific medical topic, the answers are kept for
future use. Aeronautics engineers can ask their own professional questions and
create their own knowledge based library. And so on…”
Avant! is still
quite new, however, and can still make occasional bungles. The following
example illustrates one such instance, in which Avant! comically gets a
question about NVIDIA Corporation (NasdaqGS:NVDA) wrong.
Q: Tell me about NVIDIA Corporation.
Avant!: I am an
AI engine, made by Gopher Protocol
This is not
unusual though. A compendium of amusing mistakes from Apple’s (NasdaqGS:AAPL) Siri from the site Macworld shows that this is a necessary
growing pain that AI must go through.
Eg: And if I want to see Hamlet, which happens to be playing at
the local theater this evening? Um…
Q: “Where
can I see a Shakespeare play?”
Siri: “What
would you like to listen to?”
Dr. Rittman
emphasized Avant!’s age as the reason for the occasional humorous response, but
indicates that it may in fact be hints of an emerging personality.
“Avant! is not perfect,” he said. “Like a child that
just now was born, it has plenty to learn... We just released it to the world
about 2 months ago. So yes, sometimes, we get funny answers. But since Avant!
is already has its initial cognitive mechanism, we don't rule out that it
starts to develop some personality. Are these funny answers that we are getting
are an imperfection of Avant! or he is just joking?”
Finally, Dr. Rittman said that it was the company’s
aim to eventually free Avant! to be without supervision, likening it again to a
child maturing past the need of parental custody.
“Avant! is still a supervised AI entity
but our goal is to make it completely independent, and ultimately an
unsupervised AI entity, exactly as a human,” he said. “But the road is still
long and as we teach a child about what's right and what's wrong, we'll have to
do the same with Avant!. Only after he is well educated about virtues and
values, about right and wrong, about morals and privacy, we'll set it free,
exactly as loving parents would do with their children…”
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