The AI Engine

Ah. I keep having to be re-told how to put that real comma in there. Been staring at it for almost a year now, doesn't matter.

I've got a keyphrase

are you

and one for

(noun) or (noun), (*) or (*) (noun) or (noun) b/c you can't start a keyphrase w/a wildcard

and one for

are you (*)

The trouble is that while I can be responsive to Watzer (i.e., show that I heard what he said) but can never say "animal," "vegetable," "mineral," or anything else more (or less) specific. Damned mutant.

Thanks for the above, though. I'll print it out and
meditate.

I take it there's nothing we can do about the "are I an animal" syndrome?

i'm afraid we can't... it's strange that it's not built into the Engine... it converts "you" into "I" but forgets about the grammar...

we have to be inventive and work it out ourselves... re-wording a response is one way out of it.
another solution, a better one, i think, is to create more specific key-phrases which will pick only
(noun) - bird or frog;
(verb) - running or walking
(adjective) - pretty or ugly
etc...

How about this one, from Clive:

Krill may hold those answers. Then again, I'm sure Krill wont be talking much.

I want to ask him why Krill won't be talking much, but the AI Engine latches onto the first sentence. I know there's a bit in the Book of AI about which part of the answer the bot's likely to answer (that part has always left me fuzzy), but as recipients of such a comment (2 sentences), is there anything we can do to get our bot to pay attention to the second half? I'm playing around in debug with this (I switch around when I start hearing voices, so I'm playing with several things), but no luck so far. It will go to an xnone or xgossip or the like before it will even LOOK AT the last, more important part of the phrase.

I am getting a little compulsive here . . . there must be a pill for that.

I've got it to work a bit better by putting in appropriate keyphrases in the xmemory slot. I'm not sure whether this will cause problems down the road, though, with other mem-iams.

This should work, just did some testing in debug:

([,.+]) i am sure (*) (re)
responses:
Interesting, but what I do not understand is why (ssub) (vmod) (vmodonly).
Haha, (ssub) (vmod) (vmodonly), sure.

You: Krill may hold those answers. Then again, I'm sure Krill wont be talking much.
Bot: Haha, Krill will not be talking much, sure.

and also

You: Krill may hold those answers. Then again, I'm sure Krill wont be talking much.
Bot: Interesting, but what I do not understand is why krill will not be talking much.

Sometimes the engine gets it wrong and rephrases with weird results or it gets the (vmod) wrong including the (vmodonly) part so you will get something like this:

You: Krill may hold those answers. Then again, I'm sure Krill wont be talking much.
Bot: Interesting, but what I do not understand is why Krill will not be talking much much.

Have we just change the way the PF handles pointy brackets?

: Hm?
Gabibot: Potedia is just like many other small towns. I loved the people, but I wanted more.
: Who is Xena?
Gabibot: Xena, the Warrior Princess, is a hero. Want to see? (it could take a moment to respond if you say yes).
: Yes
Gabibot: < href=”http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=949210511” target=” new” > click here
Gabibot: (to Guest153) Excuse me. Uh, beg pardon. Ah, I'm sorry to intrude What happened?

In the transcript, the chatter's name was open pointy bracket close pointy bracket and all pointy brackets appeared as typed. This change does not appear to work on the forum posts.

Never mind. I see the space now. TY to pointy brackets.

Thanks, LarsB

Is it possible to use the He: She: He/She: It: They: Those: Us:
Topic:
that you can see in the debug mode in responses? I've noticed that they aren't always correct but still.

Has anyone seen this message before:
"NOTE: Bot doesn't want to chat with you anymore" ... or something to that effect...

Irina just told me she got that message while chatting with quazgaa. It also happened to me few times when I tried to chat with quazgaa as a Guest, or from my own homepage where the bot is embedded. Does anyone knows more about this?

MiltonO yes you can use (he|she|it|they) and just use (key1) to pick up which one.

Interzone
It has happened to me. If your bot goes off line or if you hit a hang up, you get that message.

thank you, prob123!