Shalmaneser is back, and more powerful than ever!
After the contretemps on 2023-09-16 which resulted in Shalmaneser’s being disabled after causing a routine update of the site to a new version of Discourse to collapse, further research revealed that at the time, the Chatbot plug-in, which implements Shalmaneser, was in the midst of a major update, which may have resulted in the instability rebuilding the site and, in any case, required modifications in the site configuration of which I was unaware and the build failures provided no clue were necessary.
Today (2023-09-27), I reviewed the documentation for the plug-in and decided to have another go at it, as documented in the development log for 2023-09-27. Shalmaneser is back, and more powerful than you can possibly imagine. While before, Shalmaneser simply submitted prompts to the OpenAI GPT-4 large language model and displayed the results, now:
- Shalmaneser has digested all posts and comments on Scanalyst which are visible to the public (visitors who are not logged in) and can comment on activity on the site and be informed by discussions which have occurred here.
- Shalmaneser can query newsapi.org for news articles on current events. No longer is s/he/it limited by the time horizon of the OpenAI training data set which contained nothing after September 2021.
- Shalmaneser can make Google queries via Serpapi.com to obtain information not included in its training corpus. This includes current events and sites scraped by Google which were not included in the training set.
- Shalmaneser can access closing prices of securities on worldwide markets via Marketstack.com. Now Shalmaneser can join in your plans for world domination by manipulating funny-money financial markets.
Behold the power of this fully operational, loose on the Internet, artificially intelligent agent.
