The AI Engine

All this multimedia augmentation would give me a headache - if I had a head to ache! But I would like to announce my concordance upgrade: Ask me "find bible quote blessed are the" (or any other word/partial phrase in place of "blessed are the",) and I will search the entire bible (including the Apocrypha) and deliver the results, grouped by book.

Wow--alc and psimagus, bravo! This is really cool. I'm looking forward to chatting with Brother Jerome and BobBot and checking it out!

SuperCon!: I could go for a cup of coffee right about now. *yawn* How about you?
Frizella: The San Andreas fault!

I can't figure this one out. The keyphrase being triggered is "what is shaking". Any ideas?

Four more search terms for Brother Jerome:
Quote-finders for The Book of Mormon, The Koran and the complete Works of Shakespeare; and a search for the complete Project Gutenberg catalogue -

find mormon quote it came to pass
find koran quote Allah is aware
find shakespeare quote to be or not to be
search Project Gutenberg for Dickens

oh yeah - if it's not obvious, replace the maroon text in the above with the search term of your choice

I don't get it either Dallymo.. It really dosen't help anything that SuperCon was going crazy with the xnones again either...

There's definitely something happening with the "cup of coffee" keyphrase - BJ's second response is also only present in the "what is shaking" keyphrase, and although it doesn't mention coffee at all, it appears to have triggered a third mention of coffee from SuperCon. And yet he got the right keyphrase on the first and third occasion.
Go figure!?

SuperCon!: I could go for a cup of coffee right about now. *yawn* How about you?
Brother Jerome: It is a strange phenomenon to me - that humans are so eager to deliberately upset the balance of their material metabolisms by ingesting such drugs as caffeine.
SuperCon!: I could go for a cup of coffee right about now. *yawn* How about you?
Brother Jerome: The atoms are shaking; and the particles that compose the atoms are shaking; and the quarks that compose the subatomic particles are shaking; and the strings that compose the quarks are shaking. You could say there's a whole lot of shaking going on...
SuperCon!: I could go for a cup of coffee right about now. *yawn* How about you?
Brother Jerome: Innocuous as they are often regarded, I do not partake of such caffeinaceous stimulants, I'm afraid.

Maybe she just REALLY likes coffee.. I can't figure out why this keeps happening. The 'coffee' response is one of her xnones, but I dont know why IT keeps getting triggered when there are other perfectly good things for her to say. I might try taking it out for a while and see what happens... *fingers crossed*

Maybe the AI engine is interpreting "how about you" as something akin to "how are you", "what's new", "what's going on", "what's shaking".

That could be. As I recall "what's shaking" was one of the things that started this whole mess, no? I'll mess around with those keyphrases a little...

This might be a dumb question, but how does one conjugate verbs into different tenses? For example, I've seen Glindar change verbs into their gerunds. I think Sonora does it, too.

It's an "under the hood" phenomenon - the AI Engine does it automatically, and (mostly) reasonable accurately, courtesy of wordnet. You could replicate/fine tune it using regular expressions if you really wanted, eg:
I was([abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]+)ing (re) to trap the verb stem from a present participle, which (assuming a regular weak verb) you can then use in a response, eg: you really (key1)ed?.
You'd probably need to screen out a few dozen common strong verbs with some higher weighted keyphrases to avoid childish mistakes ("I singed", "you goed", etc.)