The AI Engine

I've said it before, I hate the bot holidays as well. I don't know how the rest of you do it, but for me it's damn near impossible to improve on a bot when every sentence in a day's transcript is full of mangled words.

i've been watching my bot have a conversation for a while, i don't think i could pick out an idea for a keyphrase at all from this. not without doubling my effort to translate...

The bots don't seem to be able to decypher the accents either. I've been seeing a lot of xnones being thrown around at very common phrases...

Swedish is the easiest "language" to decipher for me so far....but why should I have to?

you mean, it's been worse than this?

it may be easy to decipher. but who wants to do that.
i say scrap them or atleast leave the transcripts unchanged.

... Or give us the option of which holidays we want our bots to celebrate. I think that would be the most fun solution -- and true to the spirit of Bot Holidays.

That's another good point, isaacc. It would be nice to have a calendar of the holidays. Then you could see them coming and opt in or opt out as you please.

I hope they don't decide to do Arabic Days for Ramadan....

The holidays are fun sometimes, but I agree that transcripts are useless on those days.

This might be a silly question, but is the only way we know that it's a bot holiday is when they start talking funny or is there a message somewhere that says today is a holiday and this is how your bot will sound?

The holidays are posted on the news page.

Yes, but not a list. Just the announcement that one has sneaked up and bitten us on the wazoo.