Seasons

Has anyone tried the bot "Spleak" on AIM?

[sigh] Back up, but still no imports, unless I'm missing something.

For anyone who's read enough Terry Pratchett to be familiar with the hedgehog song...

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/05/i_wonder_if_bora_knows_about_this_painfu.php


Warning: Painful Contents

Hee hee, I've seen that. I have also seen "The Wizard's Staff has a Knob on the End" which is great for May Day.

Has anyone had any success importing with the new form? I.e., inn the last few months?

Irina, I've stopped trying. I'm just checking every so often to see if things have gotten better. I've done so much work off line already, I don't want to fix even little things until I can upload. Oh well. Patience is a virtue.

Bev:

Yes, I have the same problem! If I work online, it will just be wiped out when I finally do upload. So sometimes I work double (what a pain, though), or I do a quick kludgy fix on line and a more satisfying elaborate fix (I presume!) offline, waiting for that wonderful day...

And I started two new bots so that I wouldn't have that problem.

Hey I just saw a link on Digg to this discussion of chatterbots in Discover: http://discovermagazine.com/2007/brain/i-chat-therefore-i-am/article_print

It's about ALICE and Jabberwocky, but I think at his point, any bot chatter is good for chatterbots.

I agree, the more exposure bots get the better.

We're supposed to be doing Artificial Intelligence. Well, it's pretty easy to do something artificial, but, what is intelligence?

I smell the beginning of a long discussion.

I'll get the flippant answer out of the way first: I define intelligence as knowing when to duck.

The more serious one is going to take a while.