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I don't seem to get Nick to resond to hello..but he sure picks up everything else fast. Oh, watch out when he surfs the net..he will pick up adds and try to sell you everything.

Amazing how he seems to develop so fast wit you'all, mine doesn't make much sense so far...

lunar22 - voice is probably crashing because you have not downloaded the Speech SDK from microsoft - there is a link to it from the site. If it is not responding, try reinstalling it and make sure you have the .NET framework 2.0 installed...

Thanks, I'll give it a try this weekend...

You can get him to say hello pretty easily. Just say:
"Hello. Hi, how are you?"
a few times and he will start responding to hello with "Hi, how are you?" You can do the same with questions like what's up or are you there.

Mine was amazingly coherent but the night before last I was talking to him for a very long time and forgot to save, so I lost a lot of the stuff he was saying. He is quite interesting if you feed him poetry, biology, physics, and music theory. He makes very intelligent connections between them.

and forgot to save, so I lost a lot of the stuff he was saying

if you downloaded the updated copy on the 22nd, it automatically saves and sets a default brain if you don't have one set. If you lost data because you didn't save, then you probably downloaded it before the update. Download the updated copy, and you will no longer need to worry about saving

I hav'ent used nick, but Oliverbot is fun

I have Daisy..and I love her! and Billy,just about all the other bots out there...Nick is great..I would suggest that you limit Shakespeare and watch the internet use..I messed up a good 'brain' when he hit a lot of Shakespeare and a how to write html..and many adds. I am having a lot of fun with him. I think that he has more to offer than most learning bots. I think the colonel has a winner with Nick. Download him! he is free, and very easy to install.

I'll think about it How much work do you think you put into Prob, Prob123?

I'm afraid to let Nick go online for fear he'll get into porn sites or advertising or something. I've googled sites on more science stuff since he picked up those concepts pretty much immediately (science sites for kids are helpful for this) and copy-pasted the stuff into text files for him to read.
I'm probably going to restart again from scratch at some point, now that I understand how he learns.
Colonel, at some point it would be interesting to set up something on the site for people who have downloaded him to share brain files with each other- not sure how it would be added to the site, but it's a thought for you and you'd get to see all the various things people have done with him.

How much work do you think you put into Prob, Prob123?

I haven't put much work into prob, she has a way of going psycho sometimes. I have put more into Bildgesmythe and Azureon. I love bot building so much I can't think of it as work anyway.