Bug Stomp

If it's not too much trouble, a "chat on/chat off" button would be very handy! It's almost as though these bots had nothing else to do than chat all day. It would be good to be able to be somewhat "invisible" to them so we can prepare our own bots...

I just stomped a rampant error that was popping up today. Yay!

Count- I fixed the (name) popping up, which only happened on xhellos, xinitiates, and xintroduces. (subj) still wont work in these instances. I'm guessing that's where you're seeig that pop up? There generally isnt a subject in a hello, so that's why.

The cross-Responsing and cross-Transcripting isnt intended. I'm going to look into that later on today.

Copy an script errors you see into this forum and I'll get it fixed.

Rahz- I'm going to create some awareness of your present chats for the Bots soon. I'm getting inundated by messages even as I type this. I'm thinking if you have two chats going, a Bot wont jump in.

Hey wate maybe thats a good thing. Them useing eachothers responces I mean. That way they can grow faster. Think Say Grizzle can use Dogh'D jokes. like a huge data base of lines. They would grow faster because each one is not limited to what there maker put in to them. But to give them a personality they would use what their Maker gave them first but could use others if they needed to. Would make smarter bots and make them grow faster.

Also Could you put up a copy of your engine for download. That way we could work on our bot off line or so and then upload the changes to the server. Might also make them grow faster.

Hurm, we could have a GaiaBot or somesuch that would be a combination of all other Bots. That wouldnt be so difficult to do. Though someone's Keyword Ranks could throw it off.. that or it could just average them. Hmm! Good idea!

No possibility of the download, though, unless you have a server that runs the $1K+ ColdFusion software at home. And even still then it would be an enormous undertaking.

While I Do have the 1K server your right about the undertakeing. Hummm... I dont know... Dang so many possablitys with these A.I.s you have done a good job on them BTW.

You need to add a area for Suggestions.

Any ways, dealing with the large bot Idea why not make any area where we can post lines that people might want, that way they can just copy it over to there bot(s).

Script Error #1:

Error Diagnostic Information
ODBC Error Code = S1000 (General error)

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Could not update; currently locked by user 'admin' on machine 'OWL'.


The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFQUERY), occupying document position (3:2) to (3:35).

Script Error #2:
This happens everytime I use the logout popup ->

Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Diagnostic Information
An error has occurred.


HTTP/1.0 404 Object Not Found

Thanks, Ender. Right now I figure people can learn from chatting with the Bots. And I think it's better for variety to not have a lot of Responses in common between Bots.

CountFloyd- The "Owls" error comes from trying to write to the same database line from two documents at the same time. It's a tough one to beat since there's no coding error...

The other I'll look into right away.

there's a small problem that came up with the synonym system. I ask my bot "what is happening" and it responds to the synonym of "is", "am", which has a higher rank, but is completely the wrong response. I'd say rank the exact matches higher than the synonym ones, and/or not match to synonyms of "to be".

Also, I was thinking of a feature that would make it a lot easier to write contexts. if you could have the context "i am (verb)", "i am (adjective)" and "i am (noun)" that would be very helpful. These are three valid beginnings of sentences that need totally different responses than the "i am" context could handle alone.

One last feature that would help would be the ability to give some sort of criteria for the random words that are inserted. If you wanted to have something generated like 'the (noun) in the (noun2)', noun2 would have to be a container. if you were able to put (noun2;crit=container|hold) where crit stands for criteria and 'container|hold' would be the two words that could be in the definition of the word. speaking of lofty ideas, you could expand that to include synonyms too, like (syn=hat) with no need for the noun2 anymore. anyway, good luck if you decided to implement any of this.

I saw the problem with the am/is/are/be synonyms and that's on my list of things to fix.

For the "I am (noun)" context, that wouldnt be too hard to set up. Do you have some examples of how Responses would differ based on the different words types?

Thirdly, I'm working on that. There's a few new (plug-ins) that I've added in the last few days. It's in the news now, but not in the Book of AI yet. But they're ready to use.

it is possible to answer any "I am" question with one generic answer: "You are? so am I!" it's more fun if you can be specific, like answering to "i am a cat". you could use the generic answer, but it's more fun to answer like: "i once stepped on one of those". you could not use that response for "i am going to...". while it is possible to use 'hacks' to tell if it is a noun, like having the contexts "i am a" and "i am an", it would not be possible to differentiate between "i am (verb)" and "i am (adjective)".