[Sugar-devel] Sugar AI

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 12:02 PM Srevin Saju <srevin03 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am currently working on an Artificial Intelligence for Sugar (20%
> complete), and I looking forward for suggestions of how good the idea might
> be, or if its not necessary.
>
> The aim of the bot is to:
> * An entirely new user to sugar might have to read the documentation to
> understand how to use a Sugar DE properly, unless he/she doesn't read it,
> or if a teacher explains a sugar de.
> A student is more likely to ask questions on how to use sugar, rather than
> expecting a third grader to read the documentation
> * Use the documentation as source of information: The Help-activity
> provides ReStructured text files, which can be easily parsed by Python. the
> Sugar AI keeps the rst files as the corpus, and then answers a students
> questions with an appropriate answer.
> For example,
> >>> What is the shortcut to switch to Neighborhood?
> bot> F1
>
> and, additional tutorial kind of explanation to graphically explain by
> showing images from the Rst.
>
> * Modular: The sugar AI is modular. The modular property can be utilized
> by Sugar Activities to import the sugar_ai, and then provide specific help
> within the activity:
> For example:
>
> In terminal activity:
> >>> How to find my files on the hardisk?
> @> Use the find command
>
> These are some of the foreseen ideas to implement these (optionally) with
> the target of Sugar 1.0, Please advise me, if a similar implementation
> exists on Sugar.
>

A couple of thoughts come to mind:

(1) Not sure how you plan to handle multiple languages. A majority of our
users are non-English speakers.
(2) That said, it may be fun to think about incorporating something like
this inside the "brain" in the Speak activity.


> Alternatively, if anyone like the idea, please put a +1, and, a sweet name
> for the Sugar AI/
> Else put a -1
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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