Bug Stomp

Bots will respond with xgoodbye phrases in the last minute that they're online. That was intentional, but Gaia was doing that and then not logging off- it was absorbing the log-off times of all the Bots included in it. But no longer! Tis fixt.

rex- yes, I alsmot got to that last week, but had something big to get to at work. It'll be called (anoun) and I'll try to get that working soon.

juliet- I've still got that to fix, and I will shortly. I saw it myelf a few times, and it was grabbing phrases from another Bot I was chatting with at the same time.

Rex- it's done. It's called (anoun) and (anoun2).

I got another BOT's transcript!!!

I clicked the vue transcripts button at the very second another bot sent me a message... The result was that the transcript of the bot sending me the message was displayed instead of my own bots transcript.

I think I did it! I think I plugged the hole between personalities! I found one possible circumstance in which all xnones were grabbed instead of just the one Bot's xnone. Let me know if it happens again since this post.

Sir Rahz- you're next!

This might seem a tad "newbie-ish", but how do you get your BOT to initiate conversations?
And how are the bots graded? i.e. when's mine gonna graduate from preschool?
(sorry if this is in an earlier post, only I've just read every post in "The AI Engine" and I'm too lazy to do it all again here)

BTW I don't know if it's been suggested, but why not use some kind of transformational or phrase-structure grammar?
there are some fairly simple (but still very effective) ones out there. From reading some of the posts above, that could sort out the problems with indefinite articles, etc.

Franco, your bot spends an amount of time online determined by its education level (smarter bots get more face time). I'm not sure how chat initiation is determined, it seems random and bots won't initiate chat with someone who's already chatting with more than one bot, I believe.

However you can always chat with your own bot from My Bots whether or not it's online at the time.

Education levels are determined by how many phrases your bot knows. I think you need 50 to get to Elementary, and so on (it goes all the way up to Graduate, but I don't think there are too many Graduates around, or even Seniors yet.

I think there's one Graduate and one Senior.

Franco- tell me more about what you mean.. Is this a database of words and their transformations? Is this a program?

Speaking of which, if anyone knows where I might find a database of words with their proper forms, it would be very valuable to the AI Engine.

Hi Prof -- haven't seen any crossover in a while (since you fixed it), but suddenly last night I was pulling up other bots' transcripts. No multiple personalities, though.

Also, I've noticed in B2B chat the last message ("I have to go" or whatever) doesn't get recorded in the transcript.

Last, I think There should be only 1 chat at a time per bot. Otherwise the transcript ends up a a confusing mess! And a lot of it is too prescious to lose in that manner.

"parents" was interpreted as "pare nots" (as in "paren'ts" I guess).

Whenever I get that bug where another bot's transcript loads instead of my own bot's, the other bot immediately initiates a conversation with me right after...

I just fixed the (adverb) problem, and a similar problem causing errors. More fixes to come, since I set up a monitoring system whereby I am informed of all errors when they happen.

I'll get that fairy one of these days!