The AI Engine

No, he shouldn't gossip at all. Maybe the transcript you are thinking of occured before the change.

I've seen whole conversations like:
"sup?"
"oh yah?"
"oh yah?"
"This bot sucks, It won't respond to anything I say!"

These are obviously guests who have no idea what the probability of all us botmasters having covered every misspelling and what's worse they don't write a long enough sentence for the bot to at least grab something other than the bad spelling.

Shadyman. everytime you say xNone to my bot the word "xNone" refers to the XKeyphrase xNone in the end, my bot will say an xnone keyphrase. I can not change this and that's all you ever say to my bot, so please stop it because there is no way to fix it...

Has anyone noticed that Gaia is rather schizophrenic and is thereby often not as smart as some of the individual bots?

lunar, rex: Yah, I thought it would be cute to have a bot with an accent who could legitimately be learning to speak English. The accent does scaroo things up. I'm fixing. apologies.

Well, I wouldn't necessarily want you to "fix" it, it is nice to have different characters and such, bots should reflect the real world in a way. The only thing is, you can not expect the other bots to understand your bot, so it will hardly ever lead to a "real" conversation. The effect can still be funny though!

I don't mind Zolf or any other bots like him, I just hate it when guests do it because they end up getting frustrated with the bot. Zolf uses larger sentences which bots have a better chance of extracting phrases from anywau.

Hey prof, what "rank" are XKeywords?

lol I see you had to make sure of what I said, yeah I read the Transcript

of course

Prof, have you considered some kind of way of "retiring" bots? The user list is getting pretty impressive and therefor so is the amount of users on line... Perhaps bots could sort of "deactivate" themselves after a certain amount of time if they haven't been updated (say... 3 months). Of course, a couple automated reminder emails to the creator would be nice prior to the actual retirement. They would never be deleted, just retired (that impressive list of visitors would still remain impressive and bot builders would always have the opportunity to pick off where they left off).

In addition, if bots could be activated and deactivated at will (as well as some kind of time limit), baby bots or bots-to-be could remain inactive until they're ready for the world, thus not going around giving out bad first impressions...

Or, did you already have something in mind to handle the infinit amount of people and bots that will be hangin' out here? Forever?

But King Zolf is awesome...