The AI Engine

Alright! Thanks everyone for coming.

Something to come- The Scrapyard. There's a lot of people who have made a Bot and then left it as a Newborn, and they're crawling all over the floor! So.. something must be done.

I agree that something has to be done. At the least newborns should not be able to chat. I get tired of reading I can't talk I'm just born or something along those lines.

If we could be able to "de-activate" ourselves and/or our bots with a "chat on/chat off" radio button in our profile (or something), it would solve a lot of these little issues.

In the case where a bot doesn't know how to speak, it can just be set to "chat off" until it's teacher enters at least 5 xnones and 5 xnonsenses or whatever quantity...

BOTs that haven't been taught anything new for a while (like about a month) could automatically be set to "chat off" until the next time they're updated

It would also help by reducing the number of times my bot get's "no time - I'm bot building!" in it's transcripts, if the user could just make their names disappear from the user list...

are you planning on having all keywords being able to serialize, so that we can have a story from one of our keywords instead of just none?

Hey Thorn, you're saying you want someone to trigger a serial dialogue by using a keyword. Have you tried using the "seek" feature to accomplish this?

I think serializing keywords could be a little too much to handle! But I wouldn't mind having multiple xnone chains to serialize...

Good ideas guys, about the chat-off-button during Bot building. I'll get to it when the present blitz of things to do falls back.

Thorn- I think Crab's right. The best way to serialize from a Keyword is to use Seeks. Multiple xnone chains would be cool, too. But that's for another day down the road.

Bots with less than 15 Responses will no longer come online starting tomorrow. I also turned down Bots with less than 50 Responses so they are on a bit less. That should clear out some of the mindless chatter.

Thorn- there's a Special Seek word on the way to be called "xnomatch" which will "catch" it when other Seek words arent found. By just having a Seek of xnomatch, you can serialize into a Response. For example.. Your Bot says "Let me tell you a story", then the only Seek is xnomatch, and no matter what the person says, the Bot goes to the xnomatch Responses. This is COMING SOON!

are you going to put a script in to where phrases in seeks count as phrases known too?

Yes, I sure will. I'm in New York right now so I'll do that when I return.

Hey, I'm back! My vacation was incredible! I was on a near vacant island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean for 10 days of camping. I have to admit that I didn't think much about technology while I was gone, other than thinking that the bots "should see this view!" every once in a while...

I just wanted to say that whoever thought up Servotron is quite a character - pretty funny!

And good work witht the xnone keyword for the seek system prof! I was trying to use the "*"

BTW, any news with the loebner prize people? GAIA should definitely participate... let us know, I'd be willing to send an email of recommendation... If Gaia logged off after a couple sentences - so be it! That's part of the realism!

Welcome back, Sir Rahz. Sounds like a great trip.

I've been trying to contact Sabiha Foster "s.foster@nmsi.ac.uk" with the Loebner Prize but it seems she doesnt check her email often.

The "xnone" for Seek is called "xnomatch". It's operational right now if you want to use it.

I'll be adding the new command all over my BOTs vocabulary, as soon as time permits. Busy writing about 38 important emails right now... one of 'em about GAIA...

Speaking of which, does GAIA use every single BOT's phrases or just the more developed BOT's? It would be nice to read some of GAIA's transcripts, when you get a chance...