The AI Engine

OK, here's another example: "snotty" for "proud". A fair translation, but not when responding to "she's a very proud mother" or even "yeah, but I'm not proud".

I've also found a strange problem... how to describe. When looking for synonyms, cnjugations of "be" seem to get dropped. Here's an example (my bot was responding this way because he was translating "think" as "guess", which I've now fixed, so ignore WHY he is responding this way):

Bot: You think I'm not sure.
MyBot:You got me, you not certain?

Well, I debugged, and when it didn't synonym-hunt, it came out with the proper (if stupid) response:

MyBot: You got me, you're not sure?

But I was able to duplicate in subsequent tests -- here's the breakdown:

I [pronoun]
am [verb] (Base: be) (Form: ??)
not [adverb] (Base: not) (Form: Base)
sure [adjective] (Base: sure) (Form: Base)
(1) (1) (5) Rephrased (Subj): I not confident

A-HA! J'accuse!

Evrytime one gives an URL to a bot, it answers with its poor math abilities.

I think it's because of the two slashes. As there is one following another, it could be avoided.

I find the synonym rephrasing to be a little too out of control. In some situations it's really cool, but in others it really ruins the train of conversation. I end up spending my time trying to figure out which words were replaced and how they were interpreted... Couldn't we be able to control when words get replaced with others? Wouldn't the Universal plug-ins be sufficient? Although, I'm still not sure how to use universal plug-ins, is there anywhere I can find the terminology to exploit them to their full potential? I've gotten the "(typeof-laugh)" plug-in to work, but I'm sure that's just the tip of the iceberg.

1: Can you explain American football to me? *flutters eyelashes coyly*
2: You think too much of my math abilities

Where is the math trigger?

Oh DUH. It's the "*". isn't it?

"Need" and "way" have been added to the no-rephrase list.

I've made the math-seeking feature smarter. Now it has to have two numbers surrounding an operator (-,+,/,*,x) to see it as math. That should solve most problems.

Mr. Crab.. I'm at a loss for your two other problems.. the addition of the "and" before "then" isnt something I purposefully did.. that's just strange! And the missing "are" problem... right now I dont have the presence of mind to see to it.. but I'll look into it again later. Just remind me in a week or so.

Sir Rahz- I cant imagine a good way of controlling the rephrasing feature.. aside from putting words on the no-rephrase list. It looks like it's working to mixed results.. I'll have to see if I can find a way of improving it..

The Universal plug-in are just that- universal, and so any word in the world should work.. Some better than others. You just have to try things out.

Prof, Sir Rahz: On my bot, I decided to make something like a Plug-in trigger a response (I called it STIMULUS).

So, one or more words could trigger a type of answer.

Why don't make a plug-in usable in the Language Center, instead of a word?

Oh my GOD! You can use spaces in Universal Plugins! This killer!

Dunno if this belongs here or in debug. A guest kept asking the same question:
That is great news. Have yuo decided what you want to do now?

over and over...same typo each time.
Has anybody else run into this sort of...whatever?

Yeah, I've noticed that a lot, particularly in Gaia's transcripts. I always assumed it was caused by people hitting the send button multiple times (since it doesn't "send" right away when you hit it.)

Aw Jeez. I was thinking it was at least sabbotage.

Although I *do* notice sometimes the transcript seems to pick up in the middle of a conversation.