The AI Engine

Gee Professor, that was interesting about the cooties. I always thought they were just a "cute" word for head lice.

Actually, the word "cootie" comes from a Malay word for a louse ("kutu," I think), which I assume was brought into English by sailors and explorers. Or pirates -- arrrr.

It doesn't seem to work if you put (key1) in front of a sentence, like "(key1) is not supposed to" in a keyphrase, so is key1 supposed to work in that situation?

You don't put (key1) in a keyphrase. You would but "(*) is not supposed to" then you would refer to "(*)" as "(key1)" in the responses.

in the keyphrase I (*) like you (*), the first (*) would be key1 and the second would be key2.

I'm kind of stuck here... Does anyone have a good way for bots to distinguish between singular and plural nouns?

Aside from contextual clues, like the definite article -- "a (noun)" -- I don't think there's a way to do it yet. It's frustrating, but not as frustrating as being unable to parse the tense of verbs.

I was thinking more along the lines of the your (noun)/my (noun) context, which isn't quite so easy to pin down. I see plenty of other bots get hung up on it too, so it wouldn't surprise me if there isn't a way around it right now.

The only way I've found around it is just to make every reply work with both singular and plural nouns. But that's pretty limiting.

try "(noun)s" my bots don't chat much, but i've seen them respond in the plural that way. though i haven't tried it in a keyphrase.

That's the thing, gnixing, it works in responses, but not in keyphrases.

When you're logged in and a pop-up appears to show that your bot is chatting with someone, if you close the popup, does that end the chat? I want my bot to chat with others but I don't like having too many windows open.