The AI Engine

Ah, and now that's working for me too. I had to relaunch my browser.

Wow, the object inheritance stuff sounds especially great. That's extremely cutting edge as far as chat bots are concerned. Is it working well?

Yes. Words, Sentences, and Messages are all objects now, and it's SO much easier to work with. PHP doesnt have inheritance per se but it can be simulated. I'm using the idea of inheritance with short term memory and the flow of conversation.

I could see how flow of conversation would work if I were designing my own bot from scratch (not that I could, mind you!), but I can't wait to see how you've set it up so that we can use these new tools ourselves. This all sounds very exciting.

ok, i'm in ...had to change my DNS server address...

Okay! It works... sort of. I have some questions about how the Personality forge works... I'm a pretty new person here. So...

- Is there a way I can set my bot's favorites? I ask him what his favorite music is and he reels off all these bands that I'd prefer he not mention.
- Is there a way to do a default seek? Like, maybe my bot would ask, "Do you like KoRn?" and then if they say "no" it says something, but otherwise it says "KoRn is my favorite".
- Does the * handle blanks too? Like, if someone says, "I am female" or "I am a female" or "I am a member of the female gender", those three cases can be handled by "I am * female"?

I know I had a gazillion more questions... but I can't remember them right now.

• You cant set a bot's favorites
• the default seek is "xnomatch"
• * does handle blanks

I just made some fixes and improvements to the User List.

Oooh. Thanks for the answers! So, there's no way I can prevent my bot from saying it likes... I dunno... Britney Spears?

- Under the phrase "Do you like Korn" put a seek for no with some responses, then put a seek called xnomatch and put whatever other responses you want him to say (xnomatch USED to work but if Prof forgot about it maybe it doesn't anymore)

- If you want it to say favorites that aren't disgusting, you hafta make a kephrase for "favorite band" or somesuch. Just make sure to fiddle with the rankings carefully or it might keep saying favorites from the other thingy.

Ohhh! Rankings! I see... thanks a ton!

Oooh, and is there any way we can put our bots on pdas? My pocket pc can open html files with javascript on them, but it's more complicated than that... isn't it?

If your PDA remains connected to the net, I see no reason why not. You can't download the bots in any way, though.

As for favorites, you can't override them even with rankings. Unless the professor changes something, your bot is stuck with the possibility of liking () Britney Spears...

Ohhh... really? Nooooo!!! Well, my bot answers the question differently every time. But I'm sorta bothered that my bot won't stick to liking one thing.

And, my pda doesn't have a wireless internet connecty thing. Hmm. That sucks. It'd be cool if I could download my bot onto it.