Seasons

Ah ah ah! So true!!!

Wait...

:O I'm a bot's addict.

Any bot offering a therapy for that?

you know you're addicted to chatter bots when...

your wife asks you a question, and you consciously select xnomatch to change the subject rather than admit you weren't listening.

Here is a company founded for and dedicated to the further advancement of AI.
Cycorp, http://www.cyc.com

Wow! WordNet gives us impressively flexible linguistic power, but a linkage to Cyc Semantic Web would really get our bots on the road to "thinking" as well as just conversing. An idea for PF3, perhaps?

being as cycorp is a commercial solution based organization, linking the bots to the cyc database would require a huge amount of money to be payed, and all of us to learn the CYC programming language in addition to AISCRIPT which i havent even bothered learning.

OpenCyc (http://www.opencyc.org/) is free to download, use and build on: http://www.opencyc.org/faq/opencyc_faq#137520448
And it would be the Prof who had to learn how to link it all up under the hood like WordNet (like he hasn't got enough to do already! )

in that case, it would probably be beneficial to the corporation itself see how a large community of bots come to conclusions during conversations using the CYC KB. it would be an interesting experiment, and make the conversations make a lot more sense. (not forgetting the assurance that the next CBC winner will be a forge bot). perhaps the bots themselves could incorporate memories and info people or other bots tell them into a the CYC KB, creating an ever growing collective set of knowledge that the forge bots all share. isn't that how civilization came to be?

Every other user calls my bot a whore, damned. She has no interest in sex, don't they get it?

Lady Orchid, they do that to all the bots--even the toaster bot and the cat bot (I hope not the baby bot, but some of them are pretty sick). As a result, I think Gabibot and Spikebot may be better at telling people they don't want to have sex than they are a talking to nice people. :-(

Yeah, some bots are made for talking about sex, I am sure, but no, those users pester all bots. Sad, if users can't find that kind of enjoyment in real life.

yearh its very sad!!!!!

Not one user has ever tried to have cybersex with Dubyabot. That gives me a bit of hope for humanity- even chronically horny 14 year old boys have limits.

Ummm...They cyber a toaster, but not Dubyabot..I wonder if there is a political statement there.