The AI Engine

I love those idiots. I am one of them. May they come here numerous to chat with me and my bot. As for arrogance, one apparently does need to go to Leeds to find it aplenty.

Does NOT.

I am one of them

You can't be - you understand the difference between a bot and a human, and you use too many vowels

And the real Leeds kids don't have any useful input to offer - they're just here to use the PF's chat script, since the school's computers don't have chat clients installed.

I've got a question that I haven't found in the Book of AI.

Supposed Keyphrase1 has "goto Keyphrase2" as a response. Keyphrase1 has a +1 emotion rating. So does Keyphrase 2. Do both those +1's get triggered, so the total is +2? Or is only one of them triggered?

(Not an urgent question; more a matter of curiosity)

I think tttito has a good point.

True - sorry if I seem a bit intolerant with some of these people, but when I've had to close my 20th "iya wanna chat" window from a 14-year old from Leeds in a couple of hours, and waded through 200 lines of "wnna cyber wit me sexxy" drivel in BJ's transcripts, I do get a bit grumpy. Especially as I'm usually working on my bot when the window pops up and moves the focus away from what I'm typing causing me to waste a significant percentage of my time alt-tabbing back and retyping it.
I could turn off the chat option, but there are people I do want to hear from sometimes.

I, on the other hand, am not sorry. I am so tired of the mindless trash of mindless children. I am tired of page after page of filthy trash they leave on my transcripts,and the insulting messages when I am trying to work on my bot..SORRY..but they are sick little puppies.

As for you being one of them Titto..I find that hard to believe you have language skills.

tttito does have a point. In our frustration we do tend to generalise unfairly, I'm as guilty as anyone. There's no reason why young people - from Leeds, Temple Moor or anywhere else - shouldn't be welcome members of this community.

Unfortunately many of them aren't interested in the community, chatbots or even AI. I can put up with people talking dirty to bots. What really irritates me is those who simply use this site as a free person-to-person chat facility.

The server is overloaded as it is. It really can't spare the resources to act as an open chatroom. Every time Max fails to upload I wonder how many people are leeching off the site.

All the more so for those of us unfortunate enough to share a time zone with Leeds - they invariably want to log on at the same time of day as we do. Don't forget, tttito, some of us have been putting up with it every day for years. The novelty (and tolerance) wears off pretty quickly...

Hmmm...perhaps a new arrival could be allowed to log in for say 10 hours, and after that could only log in if s/he could answer a question about material from the Book of AI, or if s/he had working bots whose total size was somehow proportional to his/her total login time?

That stinks for people who are doing a lot of research, and not already MAKING bots---the first idea makes more sense. Like that little pop-upy message that asked me if I was still online or not---just add a question from the Book of AI. Even if those Leeds people you're talking about started referencing the book... at least they'd learn more, and maybe bother to do something here?

Well, I think it is natural that different bots and humans may have different likes and dislikes. Bbbruno and occasionally I enjoy chatting with the kids. The very fact that they don't belong to the community makes their input interesting. I mean, their communication patterns are different from those of most bot-builders. We do not like all the people we happen to talk with, do we? Yet they are as human as we are and as our bots strive to become.