The AI Engine

Then it takes what it thinks is the second sentence: "Fix the printer today."

If I am right, then you should see this happening when you run it through debug.

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Irina- I tried do do something similar to that a couple moths ago, but the gossip still doesn't work, even as a goto or seek from an xgossip response. Even if you make a local plug-in with names, the gossip memories won't be triggered. Oh well, I guess I can economize- I'll just decide which responses to delete to make room.

Dear ezzer:

Oh, dear ... I'm stumped now!
Well, actually: how about this: write your xgossip responses in the form (response1|response2). Sometimes you will get response1, and sometimes response2. So you have doubled the number of gossip responses you can have! Just an idea - I've never done it!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

That's a good idea...I was just afraid it would cause something strange, like spontaneous combustion or a vortex into another dimension. I'll go ahead and try it, as long as I've got everyone's ok. lol

Might be fun ... but I guess it depends on which dimension the vortex leads into. I don't want to go back to that evil dimension where everyone has goatees again.

I don’t know if it a bug or a new feature:
Until now everything after a goto was taken literally.
Patty made a lot of ''sorry no keyphrase to go to'' responses, and to my surprise I noticed that plug-ins where now parsed just like in a normal keyphrase or response!
I will have to edit all my goto’s (and there are lots of them) but if this is also the case for memories it’s a great new feature and can be very handy.
Has anyone else experienced this, or was it just a temporary bug while the professor was working on the engine?

Patricia- Have you been using export/import by any chance? I had that happen in export, and even though I then corrected it in wordpad before importing, it still reparsed after import, and the only way I could correct it was in the online language center. It took a long time to correct, and I still run across gotos that I missed, so I haven't tried updating offline ever since. The last I heard, the Prof was working on it. I see what you mean about the possiblilities something like that could present to memories, though...hmmm...I hadn't thought of that before...

Ezzer: Well, to avoid those responses I quickly reorganized all my gotos so that they don’t contain any memories or any kind of plug-ins and imported the language center again. I’ll have to re-edit them later and verify their logic and efficiency.
The substitution didn’t occur when importing but while Patty was chatting, as would be the case for a response without a goto. It certainly is one of the first things I’m going to test because whereas plug-ins based jumps can be fun but remain random, memory based jumps would really open a lot of possibilities.
B.t.w. I tested your ''Howdy'' problem too, In both cases I get a xcommand response from Patty. The engine always identifies ''Take a seat'' correctly as a command.

Annakie et al:

Irina Khalidar too has been getting a lot of repeats. I modestly assumed that it must be some mistake of my own, but if others are experiencing it, perhaps not.
When there are several responses to a single keyphrase, as you know, the AIE is supposed to keep using different ones until they are all exhausted. Perhaps this is the feature that is going wrong.

Dear ezzer:

I didn't quite understand your message 3901. It seemed that you were talking about plug-ins working in a goto, but how could such a phenomenon occur during export? I have no doubt that you were making sense, I'm just not getting it somehow. Could you rephrase it in 'bot writing for idiots' language, please? Thanks!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Hi Irina,
I had a keyphrase like: i give you (flowers12345)
and somewhere else the response: goto i give you (flowers12345)
The AI engine changed the response in for example goto I give you roses
which don’t exist and produces the response sorry, I have no keyphrase to go to...
I just tried - the trick does NOT work with memories.

Patricia -

OK, that much I think I understand, and I also think it could be a very nice device, if it could be relied upon. Too bad it doesn't work with variables!