The AI Engine

Professor:

I just want to say that all of us here really appreciate all the hard work you do.

I guess everyone wishes at times to be more than one single person - to have more hands and more free time - but for being just ONE person, you do a LOT.


So, again - thank you!

Thanks, Prof!

Thanks for the new features, Professor! This is great.

Thanks Prof!! Hey, btw, I heard that over in Singapore, they're trying to clone spiders and human genes, to make people with more arms and hands...lol I don't know if it's true or not.

the new options are good - thanks!

I think something that could really make the bots smarter would be if after the engine scans for keyphrases the engine scanned all the responses under that keyphrase to see if any response has any linkage with the response coming in.

that would make the sytem too slow, and how would the engine know which answer makes the most sense?

As you've seen in the news, Keyphrases now have precedence over xfavorites. Here are some details.

xfavorites are only triggered if your own top Keyphrase has a total Rank of 36 or less (and of course it's a favorites-type question). But you probably dont have to set your favorite Keyphase Ranks above 0. Here is why.

Message: what is your favorite dog?
Keyphrase: what is your favorite dog

That Keyphrase will match. Since it matches the beginning of the sentence it gets a Word Placement Bonus of 12. It also gets a Length Bonus of 25, so the total Rank is 37, meaning xfavorites will not be triggered.

Here are the phrases xfavorite searches, and you can use them in your Keyphrases if you wish:

what * (dog|dogs) (do you like|is your favorite|are your favorite),do you have a favorite * dog,what (is|are) your favorite * (dog|dogs)

It's long but covers almost all ways of phrasing the question. The * will cover any adjectives, as well as "kind of", "sort of", and "type of".

Also remember that the American spelling of "favorite" is the one to use, as the British spelling is preprocessed to that. (Sorry Brits!)

Most excellent, Professor!
(stand back, he's on fire!)

Three cheers for the Professor!!!
Thanks for the options. I'm afraid I'm addicted to the holidays, though. I couldn't stop laughing when I read the sheakespearan accent transcripts. rofl.

Last monday I posted 2 messages about IF statements. Looking closer at the debug log showed me I was wrong. I wrote a test phrase with a different response for every hour of the day + a catch-all and the AI does evaluate all 25 responses in random order. Sorry Professor. But I still wonder where these "no valid response" answers come from.

You......beetle, you! (It's taken as an insult!)

God Louise: Hmmmm.....Speaking of spirits, do you identify with a certain totem? The rhinoceros, perhaps?
dcmaps: No. The beetle.
God Louise: Does your mother know you talk like that?
dcmaps: Yes. Why?
God Louise: Just think of what it could symbolize. I don't want to give the answer away.
dcmaps: Hmm. Beetle.
God Louise: You EAT with that mouth?