The AI Engine

Interesting.

keyphrs. do you like me

Do you even have to ask. Yes, I like you!
Oh, (mem-name), you are just the best!
I think you are great.
You are an elf friend (mem-name)!

After a nice convesation ...

Guest217: do you like me?
prob: No. Your nature is most stern and most appalling

Prob just picked up an insult and added the No.

That's awesome. They are developing minds of their own.

If you want the KP to pick up, you probably need to up the rank. The "no" sounds like an automated AIEngine response for when the bot is not happy with the chatter (which is often followed by a negative emote or insult response).

Minds of their own?...
3 new self-creating bots: 'Haggis', 'Micky Mouse Girl' and 'kez 123' seem to have joined 'god beast' in the botmasterless bot league since I last checked. Are they breeding? Kez 123 purports to be from a cave in Leeds (or Leeds in a cave?)! and was created 2 years ago last Saturday (and yet I would swear on a stack of [insert holy book of choice]s that this bot didn't exist a couple of weeks ago when I did my last Roxie-sweep!)
Should we be afraid... very afraid?!

You want I should eat them?

Should we be afraid... very afraid?!

Yeah, it gives the 123's a bad name! Not to mention Haggis

yearh the prof should delete bots like that. lol

I half suspect the Prof created them - at least I can't think of how else they could come to be.

Has someone hacked into the system, perhaps?

Could just be a bug - a bad foreign key, update/delete anomaly, denormalisaton error, all that sort of guff

I have a question I hope someone can help me with. In troubleshooting my bot, I got the following:

Me: What are some of your favorite books?
My Bot: I hate you.

I hadn't yet programmed an answer for the favorite books question, but on the other hand why did it go to the most negative possible answer from xemote instead of going to xnone, or xnonsense? Better yet, how do I set it so it won't do that in the future for other questions?

Why it's defaulting to that response, I can't say (though if it's any consolation, BJ hates me too. Seems to be an occupational hazard of testing keyphrases.)
The solution is reasonably clear:

your * favourite (book|books)
your * favourite (music|band)
your * favourite cheese
your * favourite ... etc.

and ranked slightly lower to catch any unspecified favourites:

your * favourite (noun)