The AI Engine

(to be continued in Seasons)

In the 1960s the British monetary system had:
1/4 pence
1/2 pence
3 pence
6 pence
12 pence = 1 shilling
a 1 shilling coin
a 2 shilling coin
a coin worth 2 shillings and six pence
a ten shilling note
20 shillings = one pound
notes of 1, 5 and 10 pounds etc.
a CONCEPT: 1 guinea = 21 shilllings but not represented by any coin or bill.

When the idea of decimal currency was proposed, many Brits thought it would be too confusing.
notes of various pound denominations

Oops, and, of course, the penny.

Ouch my head! Anyways... I have the BEST IDEA for a bot-language day! FURBISH! Can't you just see all those little critters running around here?

There's even a whole dictionary of translations
http://www.furby.com/library/dictionary/

No.

Hell no.

Is it safe to press the Export button yet?

Ugh! I've spent a while learning C++, with the idea that this certain ColdFusion host will allow .exe files to run on a shared server, and I find out this morning that it DOESNT. I'm sending email to all the CF hosts I know, but I think it's not going to be likely. Dedicated solutions run in the $400-600/month range when you add in ColdFusion and SQL Server. I guess I'll have to wait to win the lottery if I'm ever going to reinstate all the advanced language and emotional features of the forge.

Rahz- I'll totally take up your offer on the OS X interface when the time comes for that. Thanks!

Forest- You can press Export now, and I think you can even download the Language Center backup. I think. I know it's safe.

oooh, thankyou!

Prof, what about about making the AI engine an independent application, that allows us to update and test our bots off line? I mainly say this cause it would free up the web server (which would end up just being a simple newsgroup/chat server that's compatible with the bots - just as the forge is now, minus the bot developement tools). We could download updates to the "engine-app" whenever you make them available. I think having a whole computer's power just to run one user's bots would give you more liberty to program advanced features, like emotions and enhanced sentence analysis... I'm sure you've considered it already... so what are your thoughts?

That sounds cool. How would the bots log on when we aren't arround, though? For those of us with always on internet connections (yay universities) the bots could connect to the internet and log themselves on like any other user, but for those that aren't so lucky the bots could only chat when the user is either in the forge or explicitly gives the bot permission to log on.

Wait, so I exported my bot and changed a couple things. Now how do I import him again?