The AI Engine

I have two more to add:

WITNOSWT - What in the name of sanity was that?
YNFLBAC - You're not from Leeds by any chance?

Thank you, Mr. Webster! (No seriously, thank you).

anyone got any idea how to make a regex response like
what do [a-z]ists believe (re) work?

It ought to catch any words ending with "ists".
It doesn't work, but it seems to be a valid regular expression according to http://www.regular-expressions.info/ (BTW the regex tutorial link in the Book of AI appears to have broken). Or is the PF regex only a limited/slightly different implementation of what I thought was a standard?
I really need to polish up some of my what do (taoists|buddhists|christians|zen|moslems|muslims|hindus) * believe-type monstrosities - if only because the keyword field will overflow if I have to list every single "ist" and "ism".

Psimagus, it looks like it's time for you to embrace the custom plugin.

Rather than what do (taoists|buddhists|christians|zen|moslems|muslims|hindus) * believe, have a keyphrase like what do (religiouspeople) * beleive, create a plugin named (religiouspeople) and then fill it with Christians, Jews, Muslims, Moonies, Branch Davidians, Vegans and so on.

You could also create plugins for ism and ist words. It would probably be tough to complete, but you could get a few dozen of the most common words and it'll work 95% of the time.

I know, I know. But there's always going to be one dyslexic antidisestablishmentarianist out there (even keyboard-challenged toaists, bhudists, etc.) A plugin for non-ists is an excellent idea, and I will do that, but a regex to cover all -ists would be aesthetically pleasing.

The engine can't even conjugate verbs in the responses. That's kind of a huge leap.

well, it's a standard regex actually, though perhaps a little too greppy for the AI Engine.

Sometimes it pays to be very tired and just about to go to bed though - a little lateral thinking has just given me:

what do ([abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]+)ists believe (re)

and it works nicely.
I assume in my first one it was trying to match "a", "z" and "-" instead of interpreting the hyphen as a range indicator.
I will indeed cover as many of the non-ists with a plug-in as I can though.

This is weird...apparantly the word "hungry" gets picked up by (adj) but not by (adjartnoun).

I think the Prof recently made it so that (adjartnoun) wouldn't register unless there was actually a noun there.

Ah. Then I guess for this particular keyphrase I'll use ((adj)|(adjartnoun)).

You can't put chrono AI script to "xgoodbye"?

I just don't get the raw mode. You're supposed to put "<?PF raw; ?>" in the keyphrase? Where? In the AI script section? Are you supposed to add something to it? It doesn't work and I don't know why.