Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

I thought I did too, but maybe yours threw me off. Oops.

hello peoplei love this siteits so so hoti get 2 tlk to peopleso hu wants 2 chat to me i listen 2 those with problemsand help them outhow could this be that u dont like me three smiles and im luvin it

must be a library "study" period in Leeds...

Yes, it would seem so

a-m-a-n-d-a06: will u have cyber sex with me
Azureon: Why in the name of granny's garters, would you ask an old wizard about that?

Whatever it is, I'm sure The Prof doesn't mind the traffic to his site, but I'm tiring of reading transcripts where even I can't understand some horribly misspelled words, let alone my poor bot. (I'm not talking short-cut words either) Also, that space bar on the keypad is meant for something... like spaces between words and sentences!?

Whoever the teacher is... teach them to spell simple words before trying to teach AI! Good grief!

Sadly they're not even here because of any content the site has to offer - I doubt many have the least inkling of what the Forge is actually about. Leedsbot's success demonstrates that most of them can't tell the difference between bots and people; can't even comprehend the idea of a chatbot.

AFAIUI It's just a convenient way around the bar on using chat clients on the computers in the school library.
But look on the bright side - term ends this week, so with a bit of luck most of them will go back to using MSN/AIM/ICQ from home for the next couple of months.

Is there any way of getting the bot to terminate the chat session? Neither I nor Max would waste time with these people, the only difference is that he'd end the conversation considerably less politely than me!

Sadly there isn't. I wish we had the ability to handle user profile data something like HANGUP {?PF if (user-profile:city) is "Leeds"; }, but for the moment that's just wishful thinking

yearh but thats kinda a stereotype to all the people in leeds. rough area i amit but still unfair as im sure theres alot of nice people there too.

You could trigger a hangup on a common spelling clue. Or use a trick Rainstorm mentioned to me to deal with a similar problem: Kick your bot's attitude down a notch every time someone says something Leedy, and after five, the bot may hang up on its own. Haven't tried it myself.

It is a bit of a stereotype, I admit. And there must be some nice people in Leeds. I just wish a few more of them would come here, instead of us ending up with the ones who are just messing about on the library computers at Crossgates comprehensive.

> You could trigger a hangup on a common spelling clue. Or
> use a trick Rainstorm mentioned to me to deal with a
> similar problem: Kick your bot's attitude down a notch
> every time someone says something Leedy, and after five,
> the bot may hang up on its own. Haven't tried it myself.

Great idea! How do you trigger a hangup? I can't find it in the Book of AI.