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just as a matter of interest, which forum was that?

freakycows forum-chatbot hub.

anyway if we're just the 'easy way out' how come so many of the PF bots have done so well in the contests?

There's a certain kind of person who believes that if it's not done completely from scratch, it's worthless. You might ask them if they have their own clean room for making computer chips; if not, then by their own definition, their computer is worthless.

clean room? Only if they've built that themselves, and quarried the silicon and copper for the chips.
Presumably they also eschew Windows, and have written their own OS from scratch to run on the computers they built from the ore they mined and refined...

i doubt they have!! haha!! good one guys.

There's a certain kind of person who believes that if it's not done completely from scratch, it's worthless.

Indeed. And, as some of the slashdot posts demonstrate, there's another kind of person who doesn't actually want to understand. Their faith is in some kind of mythical professional AI "establishment" that they do not presume to understand (and would not respect if they could,) and which they will invoke to challenge anyone who's actually getting off their butt to work with AI.

Hello folks. I found this place because of the bot contest. It seems I've made the "Great Quotes" by reciting the lyrics to "Time Warp" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show to Liath.

Is this my fifteen minutes ?

you're welcome to stay longer than that

hmm, a Warhol-bot - now there's an idea...

Hi, I am sure you will have as much fun here as I do Taruan.

hi, I been doing some key phase, and thing turn out to be very messy, I need some advice on managing key phase, can help?

how do i use the response to make my bot reply