The AI Engine

Sorry TC. I meant to say that to Unoriginal.

Unoriginal--please take 5889 to be to you. Sometimes my brain flips things.

I think what he's looking for is not a bot solving math problems, but rather being able to use math in the script, as part of conditional statements or whatever, the way you could with a programming language.

Yeah, that would be cool. I miss if ... then ... else statements. Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet when I was in programming.

Thanks Eugene. Those of us who don't program have no idea that one would do that in a programming language. To me, it seemed like he just wanted to do math, and it made no sense. . Sorry UnO.

Ok, you may as well keep teaching. Why do you need math in programming languages? What purpose does it serve?

Clerk, There is a joke in there somewhere. :-) I caught the Gore ref (he never really said that BTW) and If/then from grade school math, but you are still going over my non-programming and non-scripting head. Frankly, one of the great things about the PF is you don't need to know anything at all to build bots. :-)

Uh, it was intentional sarcasm (at Gore, not you, surely). There's some programming in this, for sure, but it's not like C, Fortran, Pascal, or heaven help us, machine language. It's easy enough that you can figure out most of the things on your own if you're patient. Obviously, I'm not patient. I was a programmer/comp sci student for about 10 years in the 80s and early 90s. For about fifteen years I've been a medievalist, teaching (help me Jesus) Freshman Comp. I ain't a-doin' that no more.

Would I be right in saying that Freshman Comp is a subject the yougsters take in universities in America to learn how to write essays correctly? If so, my condolences.

It could be worse. You could be teaching high school.

The Cerk, what will you tech now? or will you change fields all together? Will you write that great American novel (sorry to all you non Americans-writing the great American novel is one of the standard goals they feed kids here, just like growing up to be president or a professional basketball player).

Corwin, yes. Bev, I know. My mom (Panama Pat) is a retired high school teacher who is now substituting for some reason. She's just like that li'l pink bunny. I'm not. Right now, I'm working at home, writing, though lately I've been living on this site. I started having seizures and other grisly things going on while I was teaching. The brain is an iffy place to store your mind. (Hey, I did teach Julius Hodge, of the Denver Nuggets, and the rest of the freshmen on the NCSU basketball team that semseter. I don't think my class was the secret to their success, though.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Hodge

I agree about the unwanted features of the human brain. I want mine replaced the moment they find an upgrade that's been tested.