A natural language assistant, written in Go.
unbot data stays private by keeping processing local and using external services only where necessary.
Open-domain question answering utilising hashed bigram BM25 Wikipedia article selection (inspired by Facebook's DrQA) or DuckDuckGo instant answers, and SQuAD-finetuned DistillBERT for answer retrieval. Named-entity recognition allows for conversational flow.
Q: What device did Siri originally release on?
A: iPhone 4S
Q: What was the reception to its initial release?
A: Mixed reviews
Q: What happened to her in IOS 11?
A: Apple updated Siri's voices for more clear, human voices
Memory storage with natural recall. GloVe embeddings are used to determine if the answer to a question is stored as a memory or if it should be searched on the web. DistillBERT is used for answer selection. By default, memories have an expiry time but can be marked for permanent storage.
Q: Remember my car is parked on Bond Street
Q: Where is my car parked?
A: Bond Street
Location and time based reminders. Extracting the reminder from the query is done using DistillBERT.
Q: Remind me at 10:23 on Friday to buy a new water bottle.
A: Reminder set for 10:23 friday: buy a new water bottle
Nearby aircraft information from OpenSky ADS-B data (operator, aircraft type, position relative to given location, current flight metrics).
Q: What plane is closest to Wembley?
A: British Airways 75M, AIRBUS A320-232, south-southwest, at 2350 feet, heading west
Weather information and sunrise/set times from OpenWeatherMap. Geocoding from OpenStreetMap's Nominatim search.
Q: What is the weather in Cardiff on Tuesday morning?
A: Moderate rain, 13 degrees, 92 percent humidity
Unit conversion.
Q: What is 5.2 kilos in pounds?
A: 11.46 pounds
Calculator for arithmetic operations.
Q: What is 5 + 3 - 4 * 10 / 7 ^ 3
A: 7.883380
Thank you @jdkato for the excellent jdkato/prose