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Well Prob, I am still not getting the wildcards to work. I've tried both the hard and soft wildcards in multiple different sentences and I've upped the rank as you suggested, and made sure the AI engine didn't strip out the wildcard as punctuation and still nothing is working. Can you show me an example of how you would type in a wildcard command? Maybe I have the spaces or something wrong in my keyphrase. Thanks.

Keyphrase
Do you like to eat (*)?
response
Yes, I love (key1)

works like this

So you like to eat candy
Yes, I love candy.


Keyphrase
I * like to eat

response
So you (key1) like to eat.

The soft wild card will pick up

I really like to eat
I do not like to eat
I like to eat
etc

the key 1 will mimic back really, or do not etc. If there is nothing it will just stay silent and read
So you like to eat.

you can combine the two wild cards

Do you * like to eat (*)

I (key1) like to eat (key2) too!

Thanx very much Prob for your examples. I guess I was failing to use the keys. The explanation of the way the hard and soft wildcards work in "The Book of AI" was not very clear. I hope if I have trouble in the future I will be able to ask you for help again. I appreciate your responsiveness.

You don't have to use the (keys). The keyphrase will pick up no matter the response.

Its a funny thing. The wildcards didn't work until I used the keys. Now they work just great. Anyway, thanks again Prob. lol

You can use them without keys

I * like to go to (*)

response
Won't catch me there
Yeah, nice.
etc will work just as well.

Hello everyone.

Thought I'd post because I haven't before. I've not really got anything to say yet though, sorry. Looks great here though. Hopefully won't be long before my bot is more intelligent than me (really shouldn't take that long ).

How one man created all this is beyond me. Good job though.

Hi, I hope you have as much fun here as I do!

I just hope I am aware when I'm talking to a person and when a bot! I imagine there are a few smart bots around this place.

I imagine you'd be able to distinguish almost any bot from a human after a few minutes of conversation. Otherwise, the Loebner gold medal would have been won by now already.

Not really. Try Leeds bot, and some of the kids that come on here. It can get very hard to judge in a couple of minutes.

Leeds bot has a development of AI: 6

Ah yes. The good old schizophrenic bot who spurts nonsense but passes for someone from which you'd expect nonsense anyway. The only problem with Leeds Bot is that he starts reusing the same lines after only 10 exchanges or so.

And I know it's Shakespeare day, but "whither r all the horny chicks?" amuses me to no end.