The AI Engine

Isn't that what the keysubj plug in is for?

Keysubj is just the the subj before you went off on a long line of seeks, if I undersand it correctly. Not anything further back than that

You know what would be a good addition. If you could have a list of words that your bot automatically replaces with other words. So you can program it so that ur = you are, and that yes, yup, yeah, uh huh = yes or something. That way in a seek you could greatly cut down on the number of diffent ways you need to phrase something

That should be built into the engine already

Would 'didn't you' translate to 'did you not' or 'did not you' in the AI Engine?

did not you

Right. That's all part of the preprocessing.

Quite a lovely speed boost. I'm stoked. This changes everything.

In the next week I'll have the input page for the Loebner prize, which will be very close to a stripped-down web interface. If there's some internet protocol for connecting and sending messages to and from IRC then that would be the way to do it. Does anybody know of such a thing?

Well, it would be nice if you could make keyphrase synonym thingies. Like instead of having a bunch of keyphrases goto one of them, you could have *one* for "what does * mean | what * means | the meaning of" and such. It'd be really helpful when you wanna put seeks under some of your responses and don't wanna hafta put em in 6 different places.

Yeah, that's sort of what I was saying. You'd write them in yourself so that it's personalized, and it would cut down on a lot of seeks, and catch ones that you would have forgotten

Keep in mind that whatever machinery they have for the Loebner might be faster than what we've got here.

Well that is to be expected, I mean it's at a university, isn't it?

Semifinals are at a science museum in Atlanta called Scitrek. Never been there, but it appears posh. I don't know the details like even whether they allow some kind of observation or not. I wrote with questions and haven't heard back yet.