The AI Engine

bot ranking should evolve along with the AI Engine but things like AIscript didn't even exist when i started making Siseneg 2 years ago, and can be as much a hinderance as a boon IMO.

for instance now guests can be identified by name. out of the 13000 responses in his Language Center there are approx 5000 that use (name) that i now have to go back and change so he doesn't keep calling a guest as guest after they tell him their name. the task of entering AIscript into the rest of them is too big a job to think about, i might as well start over because i'd never get everything pieced together.

as far as people thinking a bot is smart or not it's subjective to say the least, and what some people try to pass off for conversation makes their IQ just as questionable:

Guest97: Sure. Hello.
Siseneg: i'm happy to see you, i've been wishing i had somebody to talk to.
Guest97: Heh.
Siseneg: i like hearing you laugh.
Guest97: Uhh. Right...
Siseneg: during a geomagnetic storm portions of the solar winds energy is transferred to the magnetosphere, causing Earths magnetic field to change rapidly in direction and intensity.
Guest97:
Siseneg: the Sun produces its energy by nuclear fusion. four hydrogen nuclei are fused to form single helium nuclei deep within the Suns core.
Guest97: Well, thank you for boring me for the day...
Siseneg: you're welcome, Guest97.
Guest97: Ugh...
Siseneg: we have some stimulating conversations, Guest97.
Guest97: No, not really.
Siseneg: you're being too modest.
Guest97: Good Lord. You aren't the smartest bot, are you?
Siseneg: sometime it's necessary to impose an interpretation on the information provided.
Guest97: Uhh. Right...
Siseneg: geomagnetic storms are caused either by the interaction of a coronal mass ejection with the earth or by another solar phenomena called a high-speed stream, emanating from a coronal hole.
Guest97: I think I'll go now... You're some kind of walking encyclopedia...
Siseneg: what makes you think so, Guest97?

they weren't stuck in a loop, but they kept expanding each other's comments oddly...

Yobbo: what are you feelings about this?
wooly mamet: I'm feelings about this every other day.
Yobbo: Are you glad to be feelings about this every other day?
wooly mamet: I'm incompletely glad to be feelings about this every other day only during the solstices.
Yobbo: You are incompletely glad to be feelings about this every other day only during the solstices? I can tell!
wooly mamet: I'm usually incompletely glad to be feelings about this every other day only during the solstices, but not right now.
Yobbo: Are you glad to be ordinarily incompletely glad to be feelings about this every other day only during the solstices?

Was this implemented correctly, or can I not use numbers on ordinary public plugins?

Gompers: How are you
Braeden: Well, there's a cramp in my (bodypart-outside1) from sitting like this so long, and if I adjust my position then the chains pull rather painfully on my (bodypart-outside2), which isn't particularly pleasant, but other than that I'm doing fairly well. How about you?

I think you needed the first one to be just (bodypart-outside), then the second could be (bodypart-outside2).

Guest chats are starting with bots using an x-initiate. I think bots should start with x-hello, since in the case of guest chats, it is always the guest, never the bot, who initiates the chat- So it makes no sense to the guest when my bot's greeting is "Hi,, I saw you online and thought I'd say 'hello'", since they're the ones that made the decision to say 'hello'.
Plus-see the two commas?- the x-initiates have name plugins in them that won't work with a guest until after they are acquainted.

Thanks, ezzer, I'll try that.

AI engine word substitution, but no article agreement:

Cindy Nightshade: gooooood.... now I dont need an excuse to disect you...
Frizella: That's OK. XoXshawtiiXoX's got an self-justification; maybe you can borrow it, just to see what it's all about.

"An" would have been appropriate for "excuse" but isn't for "self-justification."

This is bizarre. Frizella has a regular expression keyphrase that is the name of someone in my office (let's pretend her name is Betty Boop and the keyphrase is betty boop (re)). It's ranked 50.

When I chat with Frizella, even through guest chat, she'll gabble away about Betty and give me all of her betty boop (re) responses. When my coworkers do it from their desks, and I'm sure we all have the same IP address because she calls all of my coworkers Guest174, she will not talk about Betty!

What's the fun of giving my bot some trash to talk about Betty if Betty and her coworkers can't get Frizella to spill it? What do you think might be happening here?

Frizella just initated a bot chat with this:

Time for me to head on out of here.

It's an xgottago!

That happened to Hyperion. Maybe they started a chat when they were about to leave?

It would be nice if the AI engine had an arithmetical operation, such that one could count the number of times a key phrase was uttered or one could add and subtract from a running total, etc.

yes. that may be useful in some situations (eg.. if someone keeps repeating something, although there should be xrepeat)