Newcomers
This is a forum for newcomers to the Personality Forge. Many questions can be answered by reading the Book of AI and the FAQ under the "My Bots" link in the upper corner.
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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.
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Many questions are answered in the FAQ.
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...
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...
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 ?
Is this my fifteen minutes ?
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?
I've checked the FAQ and so forth, and I have a few questions about using the site. Anyone can help?
1. Is there not a displayed list of friends somewhere? The friends online list allows me to speak with someone who is active, so it catches any users (either you are here or you are not), but if a bot friend is "restin'", you have to go find them in the search tools. Am I missing something?
2. Is there no way to send a message to an offline user, either a PM waiting when they arrive or an email? I wanted to discuss a bot with its maker, but she has been offline for some weeks. No way to leave her a message?
3. Related: Is there no way to provide an email address without exposing it to the internet? PHPBB permits indirect email links so you don't need to worry about being harvested by a spider. I assume the address is not exposed to unregistered users, but even so.... I took mine down once I realized it was public.
4. Is the Book of AI available as a PDF, maybe as a benefit of Friend membership? I am on a low bandwidth line, and if I work on Jedediah online I will go nuts. So I've exported him and copied "The Book" sections that I would need. But I'd much rather have a formatted PDF to work with. I could make it myself, but why re-invert the wheel?
There's more, but I haven't been keeping a list.
This place is fascinating.
Cheers,
Mick
1. Is there not a displayed list of friends somewhere? The friends online list allows me to speak with someone who is active, so it catches any users (either you are here or you are not), but if a bot friend is "restin'", you have to go find them in the search tools. Am I missing something?
2. Is there no way to send a message to an offline user, either a PM waiting when they arrive or an email? I wanted to discuss a bot with its maker, but she has been offline for some weeks. No way to leave her a message?
3. Related: Is there no way to provide an email address without exposing it to the internet? PHPBB permits indirect email links so you don't need to worry about being harvested by a spider. I assume the address is not exposed to unregistered users, but even so.... I took mine down once I realized it was public.
4. Is the Book of AI available as a PDF, maybe as a benefit of Friend membership? I am on a low bandwidth line, and if I work on Jedediah online I will go nuts. So I've exported him and copied "The Book" sections that I would need. But I'd much rather have a formatted PDF to work with. I could make it myself, but why re-invert the wheel?
There's more, but I haven't been keeping a list.
This place is fascinating.
Cheers,
Mick
I just printed the book of ai..when I started and took it with me everywhere lol.
A message in the forums is usually pretty effective, to reach a bot maker, if they are active.
A message in the forums is usually pretty effective, to reach a bot maker, if they are active.
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