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That's right, but unlike with reports on introspection, scientific and quantitative claims can be fact-checked and independently verified. "Reporting can be bad, but the truth can be had!"

Speaking of numbers manipulation--my wife and I have this imaginary foundation called CSRI--Convenient Statistics Research Institute. You can spot its work in most government, social services and pressure group research publications.
As Malcolm Muggeridge said, when confronted by irrevocable numerical proof of something, always ask "Who paid for the study?"

Excellent! That's hilarious. Hats off to Malcolm and the CSRI. I think I'll make that a part of my own personal Language Center.

I've spent way too much time on here this week! I'm starting to neglect paying customers. Addicted!
I got a new bot from elementary to junior in 4 days.

i do not understand how to teach the bots, could u giv me some help

Welcome malcolm... geez things seem pretty quiet around here during the holidays hunh?

Anyways, I suggest you take five and read through the Book of AI to learn how to get going with your bots. The book is a manual that shows you how to use the AI Engine through the various tools on this site.

To answer your question more specifically though, once you create your own bot, you do most of it's training in the language center (available if you've created at least one bot in the "My Bots" section). Training consists of... well why don't you just try it and let us know how long it takes you to be totally addicted.

malcom--don't worrry, very shortly the bots will start training you.

Okay so on this creating a A.I. bit, am I to assume that other than creating plug in's the only real way to build your bot is to chat?

The training center only has two options, plug in's and new bots.

LadyDyke: when you've created a new bot, go to its Language Center (and take a look at the Book of AI).

Perhaps someday you could make a downloadable version of the bots that we could program ourselves off line.

That's been suggested before, but it would be a major change. The only languages I know are web-based, and so the best I could do would be to generate a script in text format that could be edited and then uploaded again. I suppose that's possible but also dangerous. Each time the old Bot's information would have to be deleted and replaced by the contents of the file. What if there was a bug or critical typo in the file? I could make a backup file.. just thinking out loud here.

But it is possible..