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Wendell- I think that the xmath built in to the engine might already handle that quesion, but I'm not sure.
*runs to debug to try it*
Woops! Nope- too bad I can't post the debug transcript- I could have sworn they used to show up....but anyway, my bot can't answer any questions about exponentialities. She can answer questions about 3x3 correctly, but can not say what 3 squared is, nor calucualte the square root of 9. Hmmm...

Hmmm, not sure how either but I've seen it being done by some PF Bots.

Anybody know?
Wendell

Maybe with the ã symbol?

huh?

hmm that didn't seem to work right. On my computer it turns up as a square root sign.

I've created a bot...now what?

I looked at the book of AI and I know I need to add some keyphrases, but how do I know what keyphrases and what responses to add? As it is, when I chat with my bot, almost everything seems to be an xnone response.

Where do I start?

Just get a lot of others to chat with your bot, and then by examining the convo you can get a pretty good start.

But I thought I read in the book of AI that newborn bots will only chat with the makers? Did I miss something?

Chatters can open a conversation with your bot but your bot won't go out looking for chatters until they hve enough keyphrases (aka - they feel more confidant holding a conversation)

Start out by adding a few keyphrases like "how are you", "i am fine", etc. Things that people would normally say in a conversation, then see where it goes from there

Question words like "where", "why", "who" etc are also pretty useful. Think about what people say and questions they might ask. "I am", "I have", "Have you"... the possibilities are endless. Then it's just a case of picking out stumbling blocks from your bot's transcripts and adding new keyphrases. Talk to your bot a lot and pretend you don't know it. Don't play easy and phrase things so that you know it will understand it, because other people certainly won't, and that's the only way you can develop it.

Okay me tinks I've got to add some stuff in there (well that was obvious LOL). According to transcript it kept telling one person that it didn't have any responses. Sooo, I'll have to go figure that one out.