willnewby / jarvis

A very simple AI-based personal assistant written in Python.

Project Jarvis

AJ Minich

Jarvis is a personal assistant that uses natural language processing and a database of pre-programmed functionality to respond to user requests. Jarvis is driven by a Java-based backend that performs core operations, and can be used through various interfaces.

Jarvis is named after Tony Stark's automated assistant in the Ironman_ series.

Plans

The following are on my list of things to implement:

• Console
  • run in background
  • incorporate Jarvis into the login and logout functions
  • have Jarvis warn if any of the directories are getting full (df -h)
  • more importantly: make it possible to tell Jarvis to shut up
• Centralization
  • always available online
  • all clients interact through a REST interface with a single instance
• Engine
  • bring in the NLP software from http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/index.shtml
  • allow basic commands to be parsed and responded to
  • consider using data from Freebase Quad Dump (http://aws.amazon.com/datasets/2052645406658757)
• voice interface
  • consider bringing in soundbites from http://www.wavsource.com/movies/iron_man.htm

Architecture

The initial parsing engine will be simple. In fact, the first version will be pretty much just a command-line abstraction layer that reduces the need to type commands exactly.

The operations will be:

• Determine the action
• Determine the object
• Look through the database of available operations, and determine if any of them match the action and the object
  • action: "open", "close", "delete"

Behavior

Here are some examples of anticipated behavior:

> jarvis
Yes sir?