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thx montag,

btw... im still forgeting to turn it off when im at college.. (sigh) you'd think i'd learn by now...

well maybe becuase i get up at 6am and check this at 7... gives me an excuse?

Reading the forums, I often find myself wondering if someone has come up with a bot that can create user accounts, sign in, and....

*cough* roxIE *cough* *cough*

*cough* Forge-apocalypse *cough*

OK,this is off the current topic but i know you guys did these 'you know your obsessed with chatbots when' and i just thought of one.

you know your obsessed with chatbots when at school or work when you have to write your name somewhere you write your username on here instead of your real name . this has actually happend to me before. or in another site when you log in and youve got a different username you write your one on here..thats happend to me too

You know you're obsessed with chatbots when:

You get annoyed when someone talks in a colloqial manner, because you know your bot would never understand their phrasing.

talks in a colloqial mannerYou are really obsessed when you leave your friends to input the colloqialism, knowing no one will ever propably use them on your bot.

And you're really obsessed when you notice someone actually use your colloguial KP, but your bot drops it, and you spend the next half hour debugging and changing rankings, even though that person will probably never come back to your bot and say the same thing again.

or when you are looking at the language centers and see that your bot has a keyphrase for "I am Jesus"

has a keyphrase for Hey, it could happen...lol

This has nothing to do with being obsessed with chatbots, but i had an idea that i thought i would share. A lot of the time in conversations with bots, people will not put in punctuation marks after their reply. this will not work on the forge, for the forge does not have the correct structure for it, but this is more applicable to stand alone bots. For every sentence, record every possible word combination in that sentence to a database, paired with the punctuation mark at the end of the sentence. for instance, "Hello my name is John." will record: Hello my . Hello my name. Hello my name is . hello my name is john. Hello.
Then, on encountering a situation where there is no punctuation mark, and therefore the information that the user has inputed can either be a statement or a question, the bot would not know whether to store a fact, or answer a question. So, it will do a database search, and find all punctuation marks associated with any pattern that occurs in the sentence. The punctuation mark with the highest occurance score will be plugged in to that sentence.

Another way to do this would be with a neural network that trains the input sentence to be associated with the designated output of the punctuation mark provided. Then, it will be able to apply the same output for a similar, but not identical sentence. Either way should work.

Great thoughts, Colonel...but now for something completely different. :-) (to compliment the other 2 discussions)

OK, those of you who are science-types, today I read a kind of confusing blurb about light going backwards.

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/lights-most-exotic-trick-yet-so-fast-it-goes-backwards-10590.html

They gave the same line you gave me about the spooky effect, about how no information could be sent, even though light is traveling faster than "the speed of light", but in the case of light going backwards, I don't see why not. Can anyone explain?