The AI Engine

Incubus, you could easily accomplish that by having two responses to a given keyphrase. If the keyphrase was "my (noun) likes to play with a", you could write one response that picked up (key1) and another response that didn't say anything about (key1) but talked about (postkey).

Fantastic. Thanks isaacc. I was trying to make it harder than it was.

hi

howdy 1timeuse

is this a one time thing for you

So how far have people managed to take the Memory Script? Does anyone have bots that can say things like "So, how's your brother (mem-brothername)" or "Hey, I just bought a new (mem-objectbought) just like the one you got!"
i.e. How specific are people getting, and do the phrases ever get used?

One would LIKE to do such things -- one complexity is the idea of "just bought," for example -- it could be a minute ago or a week ago or a month ago, depending on the purchase and how exciting it was. My point: Keeping a character chronologically current could be complicated!

I just did a very nice overhaul of Little Mu where she does some name recognition for people. The funny thing is if someone says she has their name wrong, she'll start 'guessing' their name using funny petnames like 'sweetums' and 'sugarbritches,' until you specifically correct her with the right name:

Guest: what is my name?
Little Mu: Your name is Fred.
Guest: no, my name is not fred
Little Mu: Oh, sorry. I'm going to just call you 'Sweetie' from now on. Is that ok?
Guest: no, please don't
Little Mu: 'Muffin-head?'
Guest: ok
Little Mu: Muffin-head it is, then!
Guest: what is my name?
Little Mu: I'm guessing your full name is Muffin-head Von Pimplewhistle.

She also understands if you just tell her 'My name is Joe,' but most of Mu's traffic is from guests, and they are all the same person from the bot's perspective, so she keeps calling them by the name an older guest supplied.

That's funny. I am working on a system to get Simulo to remember (and suggest) topics that people have spoken to him about in the past ... though I'll have to add a bunch of seeks and extra conversation to make it "work," and haven't made any use of the mem-topic memory yet, though he's slowly amassing them.

Ok, here is my first official feature request. I want to be able to use wildcard plug-ins as memory names.
i.e. <?PF rem (key2) as "fav"&(key1)?>

This would take keyphrases like "My favorite (*) is (*)"
And allow "I would have to say that my favorite elf is Elrond."
and save "Elrond" as "favElf".

I think somethign similar exists. not sure though

Hi Professor,

In the news 2-11 you wrote about making "the first attempt at true freestyle sentence-formation the AI Engine has produced."

Do you mean the bots will now have the ability to form an original sentence based on sentence structrue and word association when making a response? That would be great!

Hmmm, the guest and memory thing is a good point, though. I can't see that it would ever work, since Guest IDs are all the same. Maybe it should be turned off for guests?

(It would be boring to be asking judges in a compitition how their brother Mike is getting on...)