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.

And since they're "cold," they shouldn't be starting conversations, I think. That means their botmasters are absent, maybe not coming back. If we want to check these bots out and try to see what they can do, that's cool ... but what good does it do anyone if they dial us up themselves?

I mean, it's not like someone's going to be checking the transcripts and using them to make updates. I assume.

You don't have to talk to them.

... But, as Onyxflame pointed out over in "Bug Stomp," they do occasionally interrupt ongoing bot-to-bot conversations with "hotter" bots.

Very occasionaly, and the prof applies euthanasia to the orphans regularly

Would it maybe be an idea to start all bots as non-chatters? And that the makers will have to switch the bot on before it's loose on the Forge?

yes, im sorrry about what i brought up in bug stomp i got told off by it lol

all makers will immediately switch it on, and improving can only be done if they talk to other bots or humans (and, I actually think that a bot builder needs to talk to other bots as well, developed or not...)

I've got no problem with underdeveloped bots, as long as they're under construction. It's the "cold" ones that I have less time for. As Eugene points out, I don't have to talk to them, and neither does Simulo. I can just close the window.

But there ought to be a mechanism in place to keep that "interrupting" from happening, I think.

Hey talking about bots i need to make mine speak but iv tries it wont work!!!!

They will talk when they want to

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isaac- the interrupting is the problem, and that's on my list of things to look into. It only very rarely happens to me. Do you have an especially slow connection? It generally means a page load is way behind.

Among the cold bots are some of the best on the Forge. The heat rating has nothing to do with quality, and I think it's more about having interesting chats than providing material for updates. Sometimes a botmaster has reached an end product they like, and the bot will cool but it'll still be a good bot. Like a sword fresh from the forge, it's a good product when it's cooled.