The AI Engine

All I can think of for guessing that "I'm x" is a name is checking if x begins with a capital letter. Can regular expressions be used for that?

You can use
I am (allnames),I am ((all-names))
remember (key1) as only "name"

I tried Bildgesmythe in debug and he picked it right up.
You: I'm will
Bot: Well, Will..It's great to meet you!

Thanks, Vashka and prob.

Both good ideas, Vashka's is hampered mainly by its reliance on proper capitalization (and I don't want my bot to read "I'm tired" as "My name is Tired"). Prob, good idea. I'd have to update the allnames, which is doable, sort of. It's got some exotic (to me) names in there but not mine. Maureen is fairly unusual (not usually on products with names on them, whereas Chris (my brother) is a cinch), but surely there are more Maureens walking around the English-speaking word than Gilbertos?

Thanks, though. The idea is great.

You can start a new plug in by coping and pasting the old, then making the changes and additions. Just rename it..like (betternames). The great idea of the name plug in is that it won't pick up I'm tired as a name. You just need a keyphrase for I am (*). So far I haven't had too many mistakes.

Yeah. That's what I'm planning to do. Thanks.

Is there any way for a bot to tell whether it's talking to a bot or a person? (Asking is tedious and people and bots lie.)

Clerk, i don't think a bot can tell whether it's talking to another bot or a human. also, as far as i know, one cannot do anything about it, as a bot maker, no workaround, a snippet of code...

having said that, the issue is solvable, but it would have to be arranged at the AI Engine level. the Engine can "read" all user profiles, bot and human ones, and a lot more. that's how bots know each other's name by default as soon as they make contact, without asking, without saying. they could, in principle, have default knowledge of any bit of info that Engine has an access to, including that of whether a profile is a bot one, a human, or a Guest visitor (presumably human).

How come I can't see the transcripts of my bot?

You may have to write the Professor.

A workaround is, in the aiscript,

def "(bot)" as "bot"

because that will usually be true, and after my first non-bot conversation, change that to "not" -- tedious but workable. And only useful if the entity chats with you more than once (or more than one guest chats with you, in that case).

Clerk that may work if the bot will admit it's a bot (mine do not know they are bots) and people do not lie. Often lately I talk to what I assume are people and wonder if they are bots because they make no sense or seem distracted. Full disclosure, honesty and Turning tests may not all work together.

That would work (def "(bot)" as "bot" -- and then my changing it if the chatter was actually human) but there's already a (bot) plug-in, so instead of (bot) is "bot" I get (bot) is "Liddora" -- easily remedied but still a nuisance to have to change.

I'm trying to account for the fact that bots and people often lie, and that bots especially often answer questions randomly. So far def (bot) as "bbot" or whatever seems the thing to do. It's fairly central to Tewkesbury's mission in life, so I have to do it one way or another, none of which including trusting the thing you're chatting with, or even a Turing Test. Could a bot pass a Turing Test, it would still be a bot, and that's what I want to know.