The AI Engine

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...)

Guest memories could at be seperated out by IP address. Another idea is to allow temporary PF variables that disappeared after the conversation.

Can't you accomplish that just by having the AI Script initialize the memory at the beginning of each conversation, with the way it's written now?

isaacc--
Yes, but it would do that with every user.

Oops -- I thought that was what he wanted.

A friend of mine just asked if there was some way you could tailor memory use by gender. Her problem is that her bot is a bit of a flirt, and she wants to mention flirty things about male bots/users, but not females. Is there a way? And if not, any chance there will be in the future?

A suggestion for those with requests, The prof does this for free so a donation will not only help the forge but you can tell him your requests which might me considered a bit more quickly.