The AI Engine

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.

Dear Isaac:

Well, that DID improve things! What would be the problem with useing numerals?

Irina- Yeah, what Patricia said.