The AI Engine

On a slightly different subject with regard to how non-botmakers may view bots, before I found this site (which was through the Chatterbox Challenge site, which I found via the Jabberwacky site) I used to do web searches for chat bots, trying to see if there were any really coherent ones out there. Jabberwacky was the first one that really impressed me. Anyway, I sometimes chatted with a bot the same way I would a person, but at other times I would say various random things, not for the purpose of conversation, but because I was trying to figure out how bots worked by observing the output I got from various input. I've seen Guests do the same thing with my bots, and I don't mind it, although it tends to make for mostly useless transcripts. One crude form of this is to repeat the same thing over and over to try and find out how long the bot will go without repeating. It's always fun when Fizzy has so many responses for common things that the human gives up before he says them all.

>> I would say various random things, not for the purpose
>> of conversation, but because I was trying to figure
>> out how bots worked by observing the output I got
>> from various input.
I do the same thing, and wierd as it may sound, it's easier to do if the bot has an identified, circumscribed domaine, like cars, cooking, or sex. Since cars bore me, and I don't talk about cooking, I spend most of my time with the developed "Adult" bots, on the assumption that their develoment means the creator took them seriously (as opposed to the annoying invitations from new graffitti bots who want "2 eet me" the moment we meet.

M

Speaking of the AI Engine
I've found in the debugger that my initialization does not list all the AI variables. Is this a limitation of the debugger, or has anyone noticed that sometimes their Inits aren't set?

M

I sometimes chatted with a bot the same way I would a person, but at other times I would say various random things...[to observe] the output I got from various input

Oh, am I the only one who does the same thing to people (sometimes, anyway) ?

The first time I chatted with Lunar-22 I thought he was a bot and made a total ass of myself saying all kinds of nonsequiter crap to 'check out his programming'

DOH!

LOL, How did his programming check out? I check the chat list to see who is under botmasters just to avoid that, I have almost made the same mistake a couple of times!

The first time I talked to The Professor, he thought I was a bot and hung up on me.

LOL Eugene-you failed the Turing test!

I'm sure I've posted this before, but the conversation ran something like this:

Me: Are you busy right now?
The Prof: Somewhat. Are you a person?
Me: Why, are you prejudiced against bots?
The Prof: Haha, sucked in.

I had to send him two messages in a row to prove I wasn't a bot.

LOL Eugene!

Prob: -a little light on seeks, and I dissapointed to find no keyphrase for my greeting of
"GAH! A DOPPLEGANGER!"