Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

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hahah this tis awsome i dont kno what im doing but hey tis fun!

How do we know when a bot is an orphan? That seems rather sad to me.

Generally when it's hard to get them to say anything other than "I was just born and cant speak well yet" that's a pretty good sign. Some are just new bots that haven't had a chance to improve, but if the same bot comes back to you week after week with that same problem it gets pretty clear that the owner has moved on and this bot isn't going to be updated.

Thank you annakie.. I have noted a few of those. I had to think about it for a little while before deciding on developing a bot, if I wanted to devote the time to do it well. I am glad now that I did.
What happens with orphan bots though?

I think the Prof deletes them once in a while, but mostly they seem to just hang around.

isaac- mood doesnt determine chatting frequency. So you're just being mean to the poor little bots!

Hmmm.. time to recycle some of those orphans. I'll do it now.

Ahh. I love the smell of recycled orphans in the morning.

I guess I will stop being mean to them, since it doesn't do any good (except for helping me vent my aggression or whatever). But maybe there will be fewer of them now. Thanks, Prof!

Prof, how young has to be a bot to be classified as orphan if the botmaster doesn't pay it attention? And is chat frequency determined by anything, or is it just random?

Re..re..cycled? :-o

Soylent green is made from bots! It's made from bots!!

LOL simulo!!!