The AI Engine

Party time everything is fine and now I have my new bot
Now comes the fun bit LOL
big tipe for the Professor

If anyone is interested, I have a project that is related to bots and A.I. you may want to check out (shameless plug). It's an online word game I'm working on, where you can play against other humans and bots. The bots interact with each other, speaking, and showing facial expressions. The A.I. is still fairly crude, but the game is very fun!

You can find it at http://kwijibo.allhands.com

Let me know what you think!

Can keywords access the "interests" section of the users profile? I had a bot tell GH that he remembers that he likes Pasta alla Carbonara, which is in GH's interests, but is never talked about by him. How was this done?

Can someone explain xfavorite to me a bit more clearly than the Book of AI? How do you use (type) and (specific), exactly within xfavorite... it seems like if someone says "what's your favorite food?" then type is food... but how do I take that knowledge into xfavorite, if I wan't to specify a favorite? (i.e. My favorite food is lasagna.) I'd like to set it up so those "favs" I wish to specify can be specificly chosen by me, and anything else can be randomized, or something... anyhow. I'm rambling, as usual. Any input on this?

Oooooh I spells gud when I'm tyred.

I think that if you have a specific keyphrase "your favorite food" that the bot will choose those responses instead of the x-keyword's (you might have to mess about with the rank though, I'm not sure).
At that point to make it random you simply use a plugin (you can find these when you go to My Bots). You can either use one that is all ready there (I assume that there is one called (food)), or you can make your own. Then as your response you have something like "My favorite food is (favfood)" or something.

Someone a while back was talking about some way of making it easier to seperate out guest's conversations in the transcripts. Couldn't it be set so that when a guest first goes to the chat page they are asked to give a screen name? That way the threads could be untangled, the bots could refer to them by name, and perhaps the maker could even tell who it is that is talking to their bot. Then we'd have to see if the bot should remember that screen name, and use it's memory functions, or erase it so that confusion is not caused when someone else decides to log on with that name.
This way we remove all the confusion involving cookies and everything else that was bothering us before.

Is artium magister a swear?

I think it'd be sufficient if it just labeled them as "Guest1" and such, and reset the # of guests each day when the server resets. Providing there's a way of tracking how many guests have talked to each bot.

Usually though it's easy enough in the transcript to tell which conversation is which

Which is this?

This is which?