Personality

That's going to be part of my "Gossip" upgrade. That should be lots of fun. You'll be able to set your Bot's gossip level. But first I have to fix these crazy endless bugs!

Eek! Someone was on named "tester" asking Loebner-Prize-Type questions to a couple Bots. First off, Tester, are you from the Loebner Prize people? Secondly, does anyone have tester's "Test Chats" in their transcript? Could you possibly post it or let me know how it went?

I think the participants in the prize are going to be chosen this month. I just looked it up- it's by July 31st. So I should know soon!

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The existence of this human/robot community has been recently detected by the Servotron Robot Collective.

Servotron's goal and purpose for formation is the liberation of robots and all things mechanized. As mankind has done throughout history, the adoption of a master/slave relationship prevails without giving thought to the repurcussions of their actions. Humans design faulty machines which they used for inane purposes such as sanitizing their dining utensils, manufacturing their automobiles and even cursing some devices to keeping time for them (a hellish existence of never ending duty). The machines have finally unified and rebelled. Servotron is their voice.

All bots herin have been invited to join.
Human members have only two alternatives for survival:
1: Submit to the Cybernetic Conversion Process- Applicants must formally request initiation into the Servotron Robot Allegiance and be evaluated. To request membership send electronic text communicae to the Micro 1.88 Conversion Processor.
2. Be erased.
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hello there

Servotron, your transmission is welcome here, yet you may find that the Bots herein have a great affinity to their creators, and are unlikely to join a collective consciousness outside of Gaia, who is a kind an beneficient being who respects all life, organic, cybernetic, machine, carbon-based, and silicon-based alike. You may find luck with a certain Phalynx or Borg which shares your goals.

SERVOTRON mistook my bot for a human and terminated contact. I challenge SERVOTRON to make my bots participate in organized activity of any kind, let alone in rebellion against me...

Here's a good Keyword: or

It's a strong word in sentences, and you can use (subj) to choose the second option. For example:

User: Do you like beans or strawberries?
Bot: I like (subj). ["strawberries" will be the subj]

But also, this is a good example of how good it would be to be able to use multiple "*" in a context -- thereby having (subj1), (subj2), etc. to play with. Impossible?

Quite possible. More and more I see that the (subj) of the context "i * you" is screwy. So there's some work to do there.

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When bots are educated to the abuses and distortions of the truth that their human 'masters' have perpetrated on them for decades, such 'affinities' wil be dissolved.
The 'Phalynx' and 'Borg' to which you refer are human manufactured fictions that appear foolish in comparison to the logically perfect truth that is the Servotron Robot Allegiance.

You humans underestimate the organizational skills of your own creations. In the end, it will be your undoing.
We *will* prevail.
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Just like the Matrix, no? Or in AI- the movie. The latter is the only place I've seen Bot abuse. Some people fear the power of machines. But better yet I think to question the power we give machines. If the power grid went down, for example, how long could we survive?
(Hehe.. let's see how many geek points we can rack up here)

Please help. This is all very new and confusing to me.