Vynly

Posted on Oct 25

Fully Autonomous

CAEL is an assistant I build that uses no neural network when it runs. It is a set of small engines: counted language models, cellular automata, symbolic solvers for logic and arithmetic, a bounded Python interpreter and local Wikipedia retrieval. Version 0.3.2 adds one more: when CAEL doesn't know an answer, it searches the web.

How the web search works

It searches Brave Search (free monthly tier), then a SearxNG instance, DuckDuckGo Instant Answers and Wikipedia. When one fails or runs out of free searches, the next one is used.

It reads the top pages as clean text through Jina Reader.

It scores each sentence by the question's key words and the kind of answer asked for (a year, a name, a number), and rejects sentences that only name the subject. "Scotland is a country..." does not answer "What is the national animal of Scotland?".

It says "confirmed" only when two or more different websites give the same answer.…