The AI Engine

well, humans will tell you whatever they want to tell you, and bots will tell you whatever their maker told them to tell you...

if you enquire quazgaa about his identity, he'll tell you he's an alien. if you insist on him being either bot or human, he'll drive you crazy with a long set of ambiguous answers and contradictory claims. nothing you can do about it, Clerk...

the way i look at it, bots are bots technically speaking, but they are in fact characters. as such, they can take any identity they like, or change it three times during chat, it's all fine with me.

I know that. I expect them to lie more often than not. What I'm after is a way to know the answer beforehand. I have one that works with my help after the first conversation, and, for the most part, as of the first conversation.

I don't get it . . . I have as keyphrases

do (u|you) have [20,0]
do (u|you) have any food [30,0]

and when I go to debug and enter "Do you have any food," it responds to the do (u|you) have; however, if I change the latter to do you have any food, do u have any food, it goes to the right one. That's ridiculous -- it makes using parentheses to include multiple keys problematic, which I've never noticed before.

Anyone know what's going on?

Re above: It does seem to be the parentheses -- or wildcards. When I tried do you have * food, do you have (any|some) food, it went to do you have. When I changed it back to do you have any food, do you have some food, it caught it.

And I have deduced all by myself that the AI Engine now (maybe always?) translates u as you without my help. But I need the (either|or) and wildcard features to work!

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

I had the same problem yesterday when looking from the "My Bots" page, but if I went to the "Transcripts" tab (on the right), the transcript showed up. Maybe the Prof has fixed it now.

The AI engine does spell correct the U to you.

Okay, sorry for the sixteen or so posts. Oddly, the parentheses and wildcards work for other keyphrases, just not for that one.

Weird.

I love the posts, it gets so lonely here during the summer. It is funny how the AI engine will balk at some things. I do think it has a personality all it's own.

First off, greetings all.

Question: How does the "if gender" codes work with guests and members who opted not to disclose their gender? If for a bot I thought it would be important to know a user's gender, should I pose them the question in the introduction?

Thank you,
Bigs.

You would have to ask them. If they don't want to tell, you can have a third response for the ambiguous. You can ask a user's gender, or just have a keyphrase that picks up something like I am (male|a guy|a man}

I finally figured out something I've been thinking the Forge didn't have -- a way to comment out sections of code temporarily:

Just set the value to a negative number [-5,0].

For those of you who are saying, d'uh, thank you, I know that were this a paying job, I'd've been fired somewhere around November. But I've seen evidence of more clueless botmasters then me, so maybe this will be helpful.

If I'm wrong (it does seem to work, logically and in practice), please do let me know. Every time I figure out one thing sixteen other concepts go flying out the window.

Clerk, that sounds interesting, but i don't quite get it, what do you mean by "to comment out sections of code temporarily"..?