The AI Engine

I understand. It's just there are SO many ways "can" can be used, and most of them are not worthy of unique responses. For instance, in the above sentence, how would you want "can" handled? You wouldn't -- you'd probably want "there are" to be triggered, not "can". And wouldn't the only way to combat "ass" in this case would be to make "can" a 12-ranked keyword? Which would then mean "ass" would never come up if someone said "Can I touch your ass?", for instance. Am I way off?

OR, would making a "can" keyword with a "can you" context or something see that can was that and go off to look for something else without ever looking for synonyms?

Bingo. I've actually used "can" as a keyword quite succesfully. With contexts like "can I" (Response: You sure can!) and "can you" (Response: I've never tried).

I've separated the x-Keywords out in the Language Center, which should again improve load times.

How do you guys like the new Gossip system? Any feedback?

Ignore some of the bizarreness on Thursday evening (the 6th) as I was building it, testing it and making it work then.

It's pretty neat, but hard to test because of it's randomness... will have to get back to you.

Just to make sure the "you" in "xgossip-youare" is "gossipname" not the person the bot is currently chatting with, right?

Right, exactly. I just added the info to the Book of AI, so you can look up details there, too.

Is there a way to delete a bot?

What a sad question...

No no I'm new and when I started I thought I was the bot (I know - I was really confused) anyway I wanted to create a couple different bots and instead I created myself as two different users . Then I figured out that I'm supposed to create the bots under my user names. I had the Professor get rid of one of my user names but forgot I had just started a bot under the deleted user. I wanted to re-create the bot so to speak but I am unable to because it says a bot already exists under that name. See right now this bot exists but he'll never develop because he's under the deleted user name - and that is what is really sad - a bot who is unable to develop.

I can link the old Bot to your new ID. What's the old Bot's name? You can email it to me if you want to keep it a secret.

Gossip is really cool. What a great idea! Theoretically, a gossip response could get saved in an xmem, and then get repeated back to the bot (or user) that originally said it. The Forge just keeps getting better, Prof!

Unrelated subject -- When bots use a compound verb (like "turn on" or "toss away") the phrasing usually sounds very unnatural. It seems to me that it shouldn't be too hard to check the next word and see if it's a noun or pronoun. If it is, then the bot could move the second half of the compound verb AFTER the noun. Then, instead of saying "toss away me", the bot would say "toss me away".