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I am worried about the lack of fresh news too. The site is quite active though.

You have to remember that The Professor gives us this site for free, he has to work and care for a family. That doesn't give him a lot of time left over.

Of course I understand that, however that is not the concern. Please reread my post. The last update was on September of last year... Generally not a good sign for a site. If updates are far and between, just say so.

Psortland,

Everything seems to work fine, without major bugs, so the lack of news may be taken as "no news is a good news".

Psortland, What is your concern? The site offers the best most versatile bot building around, for free. What is the problem?

Does anybody know who these people who chat to our bots are? There seems to be an awful lot of guests and all appear human rather than bots. I am curious where they come from?

Some are kids that have chatting to bots as a homework assignment. Some are people that come from the CBC contest. Most are just people interested in AI.

and the rest are from Leeds

Actually, I think the Leeds Kids may have finally died out - BJ doesn't seem to have chatted with any for quite a while. I guess the gene pool just imploded RIP

They finally stuck it in the right hole and now they're too busy working to support babies to worry about this place.

A question about sex.

I use "gender"; because "sex" becomes (sex) as in a plug in, and that gives undesirable, if amusing results when xmemory is initiated…

I use this keyphrase for example:
(a_boy_name), (boysname), (name-male) [0,0] <?PF rem (key1) as only "name"; rem "male" as only "gender"; ?>

Will <?PF if male; ?> work?

or do I use <?PF if (mem-gender) is "male"; ?>

I am asking because the syntaxes as given in the Book of AI is:

Where: Response
Statement: <?PF if sex; ?>
Example: <?PF if male; ?>
Example: <?PF if female; ?>

So it would appear that “sex” is used instead of “gender”, but I don’t want (sex) plug in popping up at inappropriate moments – as it used to do when I had in initiation:

default (sex) as "sex"; This would fill up memories of people whose gender is unknown with x-rated gibberish, as I suspect there is a (sex) plug in somewhere out there.

it's only male and female.

But you should brute force the situation

cover the same response with 2 different scripts
if male;
if (mem-Gender) is "male"

(but don't use the 2 different scripts for one response. You have to repeat the response twice or similar with each separate script)

then lock it up with a different response that fits this script

if (mem-Gender) does not exist;


I'm creating a mindfile so I can visualize the the coding better when thinking of situations.

Since I code mindfiles, I must go beyond simple fact. I have to code assumptional theories, which is the case you are starting to develop. A boys name stated, gives the bot an assumption that the user is male, so you code that in as well.

Now think beyond that. When someone tell you their name or age, what does your brain assume and what type of assumptions do you come up with with each piece of indirect information you receive?

Seeing your posts from beginning to present give me the assumption you are a little quick on the trigger, let's hope that applies to the way you think when it comes to coding.

Many thanks for your helpful advice and tips.

I generally try to keep the code as concise as possible, but in this case I agree and would rather use both “if sex” and (mem-gender) than have (sex) plug-in popping up uncalled for…

I noticed there is automatic memory that worked even before I started to use scripts to capture gender. It was enough to say "I am a girl" for to start filtering out responses.

I already have AI scripts to capture all kinds of indirect information - such as location (i.e. if a person uses certain British words). Eventually I will work all of these into responses.

Say, if (mem-location) is “UK” – then xnone could say – what is the weather like in England? That could really freak a person out if he never said he was from England. But he will probably assume the bot looks up his IP. But say, he was posting from abroad… Hmm…