The AI Engine

Annakie et al:

Irina Khalidar too has been getting a lot of repeats. I modestly assumed that it must be some mistake of my own, but if others are experiencing it, perhaps not.
When there are several responses to a single keyphrase, as you know, the AIE is supposed to keep using different ones until they are all exhausted. Perhaps this is the feature that is going wrong.

Dear ezzer:

I didn't quite understand your message 3901. It seemed that you were talking about plug-ins working in a goto, but how could such a phenomenon occur during export? I have no doubt that you were making sense, I'm just not getting it somehow. Could you rephrase it in 'bot writing for idiots' language, please? Thanks!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Hi Irina,
I had a keyphrase like: i give you (flowers12345)
and somewhere else the response: goto i give you (flowers12345)
The AI engine changed the response in for example goto I give you roses
which don’t exist and produces the response sorry, I have no keyphrase to go to...
I just tried - the trick does NOT work with memories.

Patricia -

OK, that much I think I understand, and I also think it could be a very nice device, if it could be relied upon. Too bad it doesn't work with variables!

Dear Friends:

OK, here's one that REALLY has me flummoxed. In my settings for Irina Khalidar I have, among other initializations for variables, def "0" as "handslost";. I was using it in conditional AIscript, such as <?PF if (mem-handslost) is "3". But the AIengine won't admit that handslost exists. In debug, it says that handslost does not exist. I tried prefacing a response by <?PF if (mem-handslost) does not exist; ?> (continued)

Sorry, I messed up the colors there. Let me try again.

Dear Friends:

OK, here's one that REALLY has me flummoxed. In my settings for Irina Khalidar I have, among other initializations for variables, def "0" as "handslost";. I was using it in conditional AIscript, such as <?PF if (mem-handslost) is "3". But the AIengine won't admit that handslost exists. In debug, it says that handslost does not exist. I tried prefacing a response by <?PF if (mem-handslost) does not exist; ?> (continued)

and sure enough, that response was picked. Then I tried writing AI script,
<?PF rem "0" as only "handslost"; ?>
where it would be seen before the "does not exist," but I still get the "does not exist" result! (continued)

But wait! I just had a thought! (OK, OK, very funny!) Let me try something - I'll get back to you!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

[sigh] I tried changing "handslost" to "numhandslost", in case there was some specific problem with the former variable. Now it says (by choosing the abovementioned conditional response)that "numhandslost" does not exist!

Irina --

I think it's the numeral that's messing your memory for "handslost" up. Try spelling out the number. Set it at "zero" as a default, and increase it as necessary by replacing that with "one" or "two" or "four" ...

For what it's worth, here's some history about "handlost": I was having trouble before, because it was taking on the value "5" all the time, when nothing I said could give it a value larger than 4! So I went to Irina Khalidar's "inner life" and found myself, and sure enough, *I* had the value "5" for "handslost". So I deleted that. That's when the AIengine started saying that "handslost" doesn't exist. So I thought, well, maybe it's because I deleted it. But then, why would there still be a problem with "numhandslost"? How could the AIengine realize that "numhandslost" is intended as a substitute for "handslost"?

Ah, Isaac, I didn't see your note until just now! I will try what you suggest! But I have another variable, "intimacylevel", which has numerical values but doesn't cause me any trouble.