Is Lucida still under development?

[Jeremy Russell]

Good morning everyone,

I have been working on updating Lucida to catch it up with the latest versions of Ubuntu as well as the latest versions of constituent packages, etc. My aim is to really turn Lucida into a much smoother experience to compile and get set up. I would love to be able to do it along side anyone from ClarityLabs or Clinc (not sure who technically "owns" Lucida in that regards) but I don't see any activity in the repo and I haven't received any responses to my inquiries so far that would indicate people are already working on the project.

So my question is this, is anyone officially working on it? If not would we be able to get something arranged so that development can continue in an official capacity? Or will we as the open source community just need to accept that it's dead at this point and form and start fresh? (relatively speaking)

Any and all feedback from anyone in charge would be awesome, in particular I'm looking at Johann and Jason :p but if anyone else has the official answers I'd be glad to hear them.

[rs...@zips.uakron.edu]

I have been working on the lucida project for the last year, i have a private repo i can share with you. It will now compile and start on its own without any errors, even on ubuntu 16.04, and you no longer need an intel cpu (-msse errors). Also I have updated it to run on SoC's such as the nvidia jetson tx2. Currently i am working on replacing two of the original services that claritylabs made, such as IMM, and DJINNTONIC with newer, more efficient programs. 

I also have a miniaturized form of lucida on my autonomous drone, it runs on the on-board computer the nvidia jetson tx2. The miniaturized lucida is basically just the QA, Kaldi, and commandcenter. It allows us to ask the drone questions, such as how much battery do i have left, or what is your current altitude. You can also command the drone to perform "actions", such as "go fly around until you spot a car, then follow it".

There are so many possibilities with Lucida, so its imperative you know what your end goal will be.  

What are you trying to accomplish with lucida ? Do you want a Jarvis style a.i ? Do you want a mobile a.i that can run locally ? Let me know and i can help you figure out how to get to your goal.

Cheers,

Riley Carter

[Tony Camero]

Glad to hear there is movement!

I want to implement conversational AI in my dApp, www.localport.io

Are you guys a possible resource to do that? Or is Clinc (has been unresponsive) my best option?

[Tony Camero]

#following

[Jeremy Russell]

That definitely sounds like more progress than I've made so far.

Is there any reason you have your fork private? I'm more interested in making it something that more developers can jump into with less barrier to entry.

I'm actually running Lucida already on a gaming rig at home I set up as a server. My next steps are getting it to work with newer versions of Linux and making it something that is easier to just install and start working with. Roughly speaking my end goals are just to get the framework in a usable and useful package I can use to create various AI based solutions to various real world problems. The list of specific things I want to make is way too long to rattle off here but in a general sense I want to help get AI, Machine Learning powered tools and Virtual Assistant's away from being dominated by the top companies of the world (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.)

[Jeremy A Russell]

I see you're launching the app in 54 days, and if you want the conversational AI at launch it might be too close to the wire for me to assist, though I am trying to start an AI consultancy firm as well as my open source endeavors I'm not sure if I'd say I'm far enough with my copy of Lucida to make a conversational AI out of it.

That said. Is the Unity AI assistant supposed to be voice enabled? Or just text based for now? Do you have any of Lucida set up already and just need some help getting it working? Basically I'll need an idea of where you're at now and where you want to go before I can give you a good answer. 

If you want I'd be more than willing to give you some free consulting, just shoot me an email and we can get into the particulars. I do still have a full time career as an application developer so bear with me as far as response rate goes but if you respond here or by getting my email from my profile then I should get it and be able to get back to you.

Regarding Clinc's response rate, have you tried reaching out to them via their website? I'd guess that's probably their preferred way of communicating to potential clients.

[Andy Konwinski]

Hey Jeremy,

I'm curious if you've worked at all on Lucida in the last 6 months, or did you move on?

Did you look at other open source assistants as well? I looked at https://github.com/MycroftAI a bit a while ago.

Andy

[Jeremy A Russell]

Actually I have been. You can find my work so far here. https://github.com/JeremyARussell/Lucida

I've since converted the command center (written in python 27 and flask on linux) to use a visual studio 2017 (upgraded to 2019 already) and run on windows and interface with the linux served services (some can be switched to windows)

I'm turning it into something a bit more useful and cogent as a usable product and should be releasing that source soon either with the full history of development or just the code at the time of release, depending on if I accidentally put in credentials at any point or not. I should have that up within the next month or so though.

As for mycroft AI I did look at it a bit, if it's the one I remember it wasn't quite fully open sourced yet so I decided to skip it since what I've been aiming for is something 100% open sourced so I can keep it within my own servers, etc. While that virtual assistant and many others rely too heavily on third party API's, etc.

[Andy Konwinski]

That's great. Thanks for the response and for your commitment to open source. Looking forward to seeing what you release in the next month or so.

Andy

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[Jeremy A Russell]

Hi Andy (and anyone else interested),

I've finished going through and checking on the command center I have working on windows with visual studio, and there are a couple issues that I'm working on (that I hope to put in the actual issue tracker) but I figured I should go ahead and share it and see how it goes.

https://github.com/JeremyARussell/Lucida-CommandCenter

Andy

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