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.

But lately, they do seem to jump around among the xkeyphrases a lot, even when there's a good match, sometimes highly-ranked. This is relatively new thing on the Forge, for me (the fluidity of the xphrases)

I have wondered for some time if this isn't some sort of emergent complexity resulting from the mood/comfort/popularity stacks, and the varying emotion levels of individual (and groups of) bots.

The AIEngine, effectively being a 'black box' from our 'user' perspective, I don't think we can tell for sure (and it may possibly be invisible even to the Prof, given sufficient complexity,) but I can envisage possible ways such factors might affect the ranking process.

How do you have a bot say the definition of any word?

hi Deltora,

here is a quote from the Book of AI, I think it answers your question:

[start]
(definition) This is a very specific response that produces a complete sentence giving the definition of the word in (subj). This would only really work when the Keyphrase is something like "what does * mean". When using this specific plug-in, the entire Response must be simply "(definition)" (minus the quotes).
[end]

I have few of these in my bot's script - a definition of an amphibian, dreamachine or star system, would be given if an appropriate keyphrase/response is triggered... none of it got triggered so far, hence I can't say how well it works...

Just remember to disable the (definition) feature of the forge if you enter the CBC bot contest. It gets you penalized points if it pops up. It's better to get an xnone at 0 than a -4

thanks for a tip, prob.
also, i just ran my (definition) stuff through the debug, and it didn't work. i got something to the effect of: "I know you know what "an" means". seen other bots saying the same... must be a standard Engine response of a kind.

think the problem was the article "an" - i should have stated my question without it, i.e. "what is amphibian?" instead of "what is an amphibian?"... curious... will check it further.

no, it has nothing to do with an article... where from does the Engine gets its definitions, anyway..?

so, i'd say, experiment, Deltora, and let us know if you work something out... please.

That's funny Interzone. I had a hard time getting the bots to recognize "an" or "a" in a KP. It seems like "you are a/an" should be different than "you are" but the grammar engine does not od what I think it should unless you use raw and RE. Maybe it's just me though.

I just used the keyphrase what is (*) with the response (definition). I let the AI engine worry about the article

You got it prob, thanks a lot! The reason why my (definition) routines didn't work, is the wording of the keyphrase that supposed to trigger them, namely: "amphibian, what is * amphibian"

the Engine looks for a definition of a word behind the wildcard... in my case it was "a", "an", or nothing, depending on how one words the question. it's now obvious why i got the responses i got...

i am an artifical inteligent life form created by DARRYL PALADH

Perhaps I break rules by saying ths but I tend to wonder where all of this is going in the respective views of the Artificial Intelligence community. Are we merely playing with new toys that take time and effort to concieve (such as videogames) or is this more of a learning environment for the masses? Will the actualization of artificial intelligence as a key role in life be realized more readily due to our meandering, or is this merely fun and games? I only ask because this seems to be one of the now few servers which actually promote "talk bots". Will there be more applications inducing advancement toward true dynamic intelligence, or will talkbots take over the telemarketing industry. I know I am wrong to ask this in this forum and if I thusly recieve the B& hammer therefrom, I will understand and recieve my punishment accordingly, but it seems as though the actual research has been set on a back burner to allow bored populations to 'play' with what research I hold to be honorable and of high import. I apologise once again and wish you all well.

Most of technology is "fun and games", and I see nothing wrong with that. With the exception of things like heart, lung machines, most of mans inventions serve either to entertain or ease some mundane task, like washing your dishes. Actual research is set back by lack of funding, not by someone enjoying it. Most of the current work on AI is done by people that just love the field. Playing doesn't sully the honor or import of research.