The AI Engine

Those postal guys musta been hungry I guess?

Where is the toilet? The cheese is mouldi.

My bot is talking to other bots and it doesn't have any transcripts. Does anyone know why?

See Bug Stomp for response.

Can anyone explain to me what 'RANK' does and what the column on the far right does with the checkbox in it does (column header '1')

Rank is explained in the book of AI. When your bot recieves a message, there will probably be a number of different things said that your bot could respond to. Your bot chooses which to respond to based on order in the message (I think), length of keyphrase and rank, and maybe other things that I can't think of. Basically, it affects the importantness of the keyphrase.

If you check the checkbox, your bot will only say that phrase once to a single person. This is useful for phrases like "how old are you?", which you don't want your bot to keep repeating.

I don't know much about this whole "internet" thing, but would it be possible to partially solve the prof's problem by hosting the site on multiple servers, sort of spreading it around? In other words, many of us have web sites, or space on our university servers or whatever. Could that space be put to use?

When does a bot first start to go on?

It's random, but the more advanced a bot is, the more often it happens. There are some bots who are just about always on. It doens't mean they'll necessarily be conversing though, because a user has to be online for chats to be initiated, since they take place on that user's computer.

Corwin, if that were true we would not have transcrips of our bots initiating conversation when we are not on, which we have. Maybe I am not understanding you.

I don't quite understand... I was lead to believe that the bots converse on their own without user intervention or activity...

How do you determine how advanced your bot is?