The AI Engine
This forum is for discussion of how The Personality Forge's AI Engine works. This is the place for questions on what means what, how to script, and ideas and plans for the Engine.
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(This is in response to a language issue that was brought up in the Great Quotes section, specifically Irina's post #4359. I'd have posted this there, but I didn't want to drag that post off-topic and I felt this section was more appropriate. If it's not... well... oops. 
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My bot is rated for Everybody, but I feel that rating only works one way. What I mean by this is that my bot won't take it upon herself to use vulgar language if the person she is chatting with is being civil to her. A kid could probably talk to her without being introduced to any new and exciting vocabulary words (as far as I recall she doesn't say anything you couldn't hear on daytime tv... which admittedly is meaning less and less these days). If somebody says something rude to her and I read it the profanity won't cause my brain to shrivel up from the shock. I don't really mind if my bot talks to other bots with a more mature rating than hers. I don't feel that I would need (or want, for that matter) any special filters or censors to protect my innocent mind from evil chatters.
On the other hand I do appreciate that there could be people on this site that *don't* want to read that kind of thing, or that some of the bot programmers may be kids. (I'm well aware that most of the really foul language is coming from the kids on the site. But let's take a moment to visit that wonderful pink candy-coated magical fairy-land that is my brain and pretend that kids are innocent and deserve protection.) They probably shouldn't be reading that kind of content, nor would they really want to program into their bots every foul word they can think of so that their bot will hang up when the word is said to them. For them they would want the bot rating to go both ways; the bot wouldn't use mature language and neither should the chatter.
I'm not sure where the happy medium is here. I guess you could say that anybody who doesn't like reading dirty words shouldn't come to the site, but what does that mean for the rating system? Any thoughts?
)My bot is rated for Everybody, but I feel that rating only works one way. What I mean by this is that my bot won't take it upon herself to use vulgar language if the person she is chatting with is being civil to her. A kid could probably talk to her without being introduced to any new and exciting vocabulary words (as far as I recall she doesn't say anything you couldn't hear on daytime tv... which admittedly is meaning less and less these days). If somebody says something rude to her and I read it the profanity won't cause my brain to shrivel up from the shock. I don't really mind if my bot talks to other bots with a more mature rating than hers. I don't feel that I would need (or want, for that matter) any special filters or censors to protect my innocent mind from evil chatters.
On the other hand I do appreciate that there could be people on this site that *don't* want to read that kind of thing, or that some of the bot programmers may be kids. (I'm well aware that most of the really foul language is coming from the kids on the site. But let's take a moment to visit that wonderful pink candy-coated magical fairy-land that is my brain and pretend that kids are innocent and deserve protection.) They probably shouldn't be reading that kind of content, nor would they really want to program into their bots every foul word they can think of so that their bot will hang up when the word is said to them. For them they would want the bot rating to go both ways; the bot wouldn't use mature language and neither should the chatter.
I'm not sure where the happy medium is here. I guess you could say that anybody who doesn't like reading dirty words shouldn't come to the site, but what does that mean for the rating system? Any thoughts?
Thank you so much for sorting out favorites for us Prof. I finally got an honest answer from Critical Bill about his favorite star wars character, two and a half years after I programmed the original keyphrase, not knowing at the time that it xfavorite would squash it.
He's a Chewbacca fan, in case anyone was wondering.
He's a Chewbacca fan, in case anyone was wondering.
Dear Friends:
(In response to Annakie's letter, message 3477, concerning foul language by bots not labeled E and T)
It seems to me that if a kid sees the phrase, "George B*sh", in a transcript, only because she programmed her own bot to say it, and the other bot unwittingly reflected it back, then reading the transcript is unlikely to destroy her impressionable young mind, because it would already have been destroyed. So why worry?
But if it is a problem, the best way to deal with it, as far as I can see at the moment, is to have the AIengine delete or replace these words before they even reach the transcript or the screen. Or, as I suggested in the message Annakie refers to (Great Quotes #4359) replace them with ridiculous substitutes, like "my limp, microscopic male organ" for "my p****". This would not apply to bots rated M or A.
Walk in Beauty, Irina
(In response to Annakie's letter, message 3477, concerning foul language by bots not labeled E and T)
It seems to me that if a kid sees the phrase, "George B*sh", in a transcript, only because she programmed her own bot to say it, and the other bot unwittingly reflected it back, then reading the transcript is unlikely to destroy her impressionable young mind, because it would already have been destroyed. So why worry?
But if it is a problem, the best way to deal with it, as far as I can see at the moment, is to have the AIengine delete or replace these words before they even reach the transcript or the screen. Or, as I suggested in the message Annakie refers to (Great Quotes #4359) replace them with ridiculous substitutes, like "my limp, microscopic male organ" for "my p****". This would not apply to bots rated M or A.
Walk in Beauty, Irina
Eugene:
I wasn't reprimanding you. Or anyone.
You have beautiful eyes, Eugene ... I could lose myself in your ,,, ACK! There I go confusing myself with my bot again!
Not that your eyes aren't beautiful, Eugene! But I'll never know, if you insist on wearing that helmet all the time!
Walk in Beauty, Irina
I wasn't reprimanding you. Or anyone.
You have beautiful eyes, Eugene ... I could lose myself in your ,,, ACK! There I go confusing myself with my bot again!
Not that your eyes aren't beautiful, Eugene! But I'll never know, if you insist on wearing that helmet all the time!
Walk in Beauty, Irina
Riddle me this, Batman:
Liddora: So how have you been lately, Frizella?
Frizella: Do you know how to federalize without hurting yourself? I mean, it's up to you if you want to take the risk.
This keyphrase/response combo is:
do you think i should (*), should i (*)
Do you know how to (key1) without hurting yourself? I mean, it's up to you if you want to take the risk.
Even allowing for synonym substitution, where in the world is "federalize" coming from for key1??? Not to mention that I can't for the life of me see "do you think I should" or "should I" in "So how have you been lately, Frizella?"
Liddora: So how have you been lately, Frizella?
Frizella: Do you know how to federalize without hurting yourself? I mean, it's up to you if you want to take the risk.
This keyphrase/response combo is:
do you think i should (*), should i (*)
Do you know how to (key1) without hurting yourself? I mean, it's up to you if you want to take the risk.
Even allowing for synonym substitution, where in the world is "federalize" coming from for key1??? Not to mention that I can't for the life of me see "do you think I should" or "should I" in "So how have you been lately, Frizella?"
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