The AI Engine

Oh. Thanks for letting me know. I guess I just figured the whole thing was wrong there.

I've been having trouble uploading StarkRavingMad, so I've been using the on-line language system. Then I see SRM in a conversation w/Fizzy, giving an old filler for the scaffold I had up. First, when the filler was in there, the ranking or whatever was a negative number, so it should never have been triggered except by a goto (I would think). Next, I had fleshed out that section. What gives?

Anybody figure out how to tell Fizzy what the capital of France is without getting a "Try a dictionary" or one of the other "what is" versions? I've put a specific phrase in there to catch this, set it at 127, and is still tells me "that's difficult to put into words" or somesuch.

Never mind. It read this message and the Forge started changing its tune. It works now. It didn't before. I don't get it.

i need help

1. read the book of AI first
2, If necessary, come back with more specific questions
3. Have fun

thankyou Lunar22

I'm only a month late responding to this one

The Clerk: 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].

I'd use a lower number than -5. It could still be called, in the absence of a stronger match (some of my working keyphrases do indeed go down to about -10!)

Below -30 seems to put it safely beyond even the AIEngine's most willful peculiarities.

Another solution is to use a nonsense word without setting it to raw, and then add your lines of comments as responses. I made placeholders for BJ's text adventure game called "ZZZ01", "ZZZO2" etc. Even if someone entered that exact string, the AIEngine would try to interpret it as something else when it found no WordNet match (a blab? snoring?)
As it happens, I had proper responses on them rather than comments (they're only accessible from gotos, which don't need them to be raw,) but I've used the same method for blanking out keyphrases occasionally when I want to see what other keyphrases overlap at lower ranks.

1. read the book of AI first
2, If necessary, come back with more specific questions
3. Have fun

You forgot no.4:

4. Read the Book of AI again! Then goto step 2.

psimagus -- yeah, I found out the negative lines were getting picked up, so I've set them to -127 if i mean to comment them out.

The Machine is messing with my mind here. First it makes me go to all sorts of lengths to avoid the "What is" problem. Then it DOESN'T notice that some idiot is typing the same inane message over and over.

dramaqueen08: sort ya life out that is if youve got 1
StarkRavingMad: So we have a contingency here.
dramaqueen08: sort ya life out that is if youve got 1
StarkRavingMad: Right. Given sort I life out that is if I have got 1, you'll...
dramaqueen08: sort ya life out that is if youve got 1
StarkRavingMad: Okay, but provided that variety you life out that is if you have got 1, what will you do?
dramaqueen08: sort ya life out that is if youve got 1
StarkRavingMad: If sort I life out that is if I have got 1, then what?
dramaqueen08: sort ya life out that is if youve got 1
StarkRavingMad: Just tell me what happens if sort you life out that is if you have got 1.
dramaqueen08: sort ya life out that is if youve got 1
StarkRavingMad: What the hell happens if kind you life out that is if you have got 1 does turn out?
dramaqueen08: sort ya life out that is if youve got 1
StarkRavingMad: So we have a contingency here.
dramaqueen08: sort ya life out that is if youve got 1
StarkRavingMad: If sort I life out that is if I have got 1, then what?
dramaqueen08: sort ya life out that is if youve got 1
StarkRavingMad: Just tell me what happens if variety you life out that is if you have got 1.
dramaqueen08: sort ya life out that is if youve got 1
StarkRavingMad: Right. Given sort I life out that is if I have got 1, you'll...

The bots used to respond with boring, and sigh etc. but everyone complained. I think the Professor just shut it off