Friday, November 10, 2023

New UFO Chatbot - "Dave" (better, I think, than my previous UFO chatbots i.e. "Robert" [2018] and "Jenny" [April 2023])

Here's my third UFO chatbot - "Dave".  ("Dave" is named as a gesture of respect to journalist and UFO researcher Associate Professor David Clarke).

Back in December 2018, I created and shared a basic UFO chatbot which I named "Robert", after Robert Moore. I think that was the first UFO chatbot created.  (Robert Moore was a kind and friendly British UFO researcher. He has since sadly passed away).  "Robert" UFO chatbot attempted to respond to raw reports of basic UFO sightings by asking some questions and suggesting _possible_ solutions for them. "Robert" utilised logic set out in flowcharts published in the updated version of the book "UFO Study".  "Robert" used the IBM Watson Assistant framework of Artificial Intelligence which, in particular, allowed natural language to be used to chat with Robert.   A leading European UFO researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos, made some very generous remarks about my "Robert" chatbot on his Fotocat blog in March 2019.  He wrote that:

"In my considered opinion, what Isaac Koi has done is one of the best, most proactive and original developments in UFO research in the last decades".

More recently, on 1 April 2023, I shared a new toy with the UFO community : "Jenny". I think "Jenny" was the first Chatbot focused on UFOs that used ChatGPT to answer questions and summarise information to assist with UFO research and investigations. I called that Chatbot "Jenny" as a gesture of respect to another British ufologist, Jenny Randles.  I'm not aware of any other UFO chatbots being shared with the UFO community between my creation of "Robert" in 2018 and my creation of "Jenny", so "Jenny" appears to have been only the second chatbot focused on UFO investigation and research.
Here's a direct link to "Jenny":

My new UFO chatbot "Dave", like "Jenny", uses ChatGPT (version 4, whereas Jenny used version 3.5) and - also like "Jenny" - is intended to give critical evaluations of potential explanations of UFO sightings. "Dave" has been instructed to reflect, in particular, the work of Jenny Randles, J Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, Richard Haines, and Mick West.

Jenny was a significant upgrade over Robert, but was unreliable and prone to making stuff up. Basically, "Jenny" was neither as smart nor as careful as the "Jenny" was named after. :) But it was much much easier to create "Jenny" than my previous chatbot.

"Dave" was even easier to create, utilising the GPT creation tool released by OpenAI this week.  

I think "Dave" is considerably smarter than "Jenny" (although the next Chatbot - as yet unnamed, which I working to train on a huge volume of digitised UFO material - should be a bigger step forward).

Unfortunately, I think OpenAI currently only makes such GPT creations available to those that pay for "ChatGPT Plus" membership. Of course, I'd prefer to make this new evolution of a UFO chatbot available without charge.

"Dave" can be accessed by clicking on the image below.




Here is a direct link to "Dave":

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-LUQvGeeIm-dave-ufo-analyst