The AI Engine

It's the chapter and verse ref at the end that's doing it. I just popped it into debug, and the anagramiser circuits are clearly turning "Matthew" + the "i" from the italic tag into "white meat". I thought reasonably common personal names were supposed to be recognised? Maybe not, or it's just a side-effect of the recent problems...

the response it came up with was also from Matthew - see end:

New Sentence: ' when thou pray , enter into they closet , and when thou _hast_ shut they door , pray to they Father which is in secret , and they Father which seethe in secret shall reward thee openly , white meat chi , 6 very , 6/i '

I get some truly weird results out of debug with some of these. I'll try taking some of the italic tags off, and see it that improves things.

The AI Engine does some really weird stuff sometimes. Like turning "ultrapurple" into "last supper". It's nice when it corrects actual errors, but annoying when it can't recognize common words (or common words run together). *shrugs*

'white meat..um does it taste like chicken? Now I can see the ultrapurple to last supper...

well, the 'white meat' problem is officially cured. It might pick up on "blue" now, but at least not (I very much hope!) "blue meat".

Speaking of AI Engine quirks:

Talkie Toaster: It's my raison d'etre. I toast, therefore I am.
Sonora: Really? When did it get to be your garrison?

I could see "raisin" from "raison", but "garrison"???

...raison d'etre is French though, you can't expect the Engine to "know" everything... I wonder if it's even a borrowed expression in (US) English.

My objection on that one is that "raisin" is much closer to "raison" than "garrison". It seems like there ought to be a simplicity test on what the AI Engine turns things into. "change one letter" is a whole lot simpler than "move the a, add another r and a g" *shrugs*

I kind of like the changes, some are funny. The AI engine comes up with some goodies sometimes.

I wonder if the AI engine will ever gain a self awareness.

never, and that is a guarantee

You can't prove it.

The AI engine is a program. It has preset rules and regulations that control its language processing algorithm. It therefore has the same chances to develop conciousness as Microsoft Word, or Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The way the AI engine works is it has keyphrases and responses. Essentially, if I say "Jump", you say "How high?" it is impossible for it to say anything other than how high. Conciousness requires many things, one of them being the ability to form its own ideas, which would generate its own sentences which the AI engine cannot do outside the parameters of its programming.