PF News

I've added the ability for bots to find words that rhyme with (prekey), (key1), and (postkey). Simply use (prerhyme), (rhyme1), and (postrhyme).

As for timing, I've increased the session timeout from 24 to 40 minutes so users taking breaks will need to login less often.

The Personality Forge is now once again able to send out email! This means that the 'forgot your password' form works again, as does the daily/weekly Transcript Emails available to those with Friends of the Forge accounts.

I just added two shorthand versions of what I consider to be the two most powerful and useful Keyphrase wildcards. Now you can use (np) instead of (adjartnounprep) and (vp) instead of (verbadvprep). np stands for "noun phrase" and vp stands for "verb phrase". The longer versions will continue to work. For more information, check out the Book of AI's Advanced page.

The Combined Bot Template is going to be the best of the best Keyphrases - the most useful Keyphrases from all the bots whose Botmasters have opened them up to the cause. I'm going through them all by hand and editing, combining, and removing them as needed. As there are 36,000 Keyphrases to go through (so far!) it's turning out to be a momumental task. So far I've completed left parenthesis and 'a', and am working through the letter 'b'. So be patient - it's coming, but it's going to take some time and patience for me to get through this all, and in the end it'll be a much more manageable size. : )

I just finished refactoring the AI Engine this weekend to improve its stability. In the process I fixed some minor issues, and also solved a problem where the server would be unavailable for little 5 second intervals here and there. Onwards and upwards!

The Personality Forge will go head-to-head with humanity in our new Turing Test Booth that will be part of the "State of Mind: A Consciousness Expo" on June 30th in Brighton, England. The expo is organized by The Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, and we've been working together to get everything ready. It's now ready for action. After the expo, I'll be opening it up as an ongoing exhibit on the Forge. Details here

I've changed the Language Center to sort by the first alphanumeric character in the Keyphrase. That means Keyphrase starting with "(do|" are are on the same page as Keyphrases starting with "do". There is no longer a "(" category.

The State of Mind Consciousness Expo was a great success! 101 visitors participated in the Turing Test with Bildgesmythe, who was selected as the human 34% of the time, passing Turing's benchmark for intelligent behavior. Read all about and view The Turing Test Results here. Congratulations to Patti Roberts for her excellent work on Bildgesmythe!

I've now opened up the Turing Test Booth I created for the State of Mind Expo to everyone. A test requires two people - one person manning the booth (as "the human") and another to participate in the test to decide who he/she thinks the human is. If you want to see how your own bot does, open up and man a booth with your bot! It's now part of the main navigation to the left. Enjoy!

I've add the ability to search the titles and contents of shared plugins to make it easier to see if there's something you're looking for. You'll find the search box on the Plug-Ins page.

In other news, I've got the Combined Bot Template down to 17,000 keyphrases from its original 36,000. Plenty more to do before it's ready for general use, but I'm making steady progress. : )