The AI Engine

That worked beautifully, Ulrike. Thank you.
Another question: Is there any way to influence your bots to log-in and chat with others?

The more you are online working on your bots the more they will chat..that is if they are on line. There is bug some days. If you want to choose who your bot talks to, you can get a friend of the forge account. It' s great fun, you get the flash face to play with too.

The only problem with a friends of the forge acount is no iframe.

Yes, and you have to redo the tic tac toe game with out color. But I never found a good use for iframe, Brother Jerome did it all!

OH, and remember you still have the regular interface, you can use. the Forge account doesn't change that. you just get the added use of the flash chat and the bot chat initiate

I think you can have a FOF and choose not to use flash interface. It may be in settings. I know I took Gabibot off of flash when I started trying to put her on various pages (the dastardly hosts keep screening her out, and least as an embedded flash bot)

Yeah. I don't use the flash-thing. It just doesn't interest me that much. *shrugs*

The engine still sees names as commands, example:

What will you be doing while I mehitabel?

How about this for the name thing?
Was a (typeof-grandmother's-n) my name.
I got that today.

The ai engine made a funny...I guess it's not to well read
Took a classic as an insult
Guest162: k its called moby dick
prob: You must lead a very dull, boing, lonly life, talking like that.

Does anyone know what gets picked up by the definition plug in? I know it should work with "what does * mean" but will it work with "define" as a key phrase? Would "define (*)" work better?

I read in an earlier message that seeks and gotos retard 'development.' Why in the world would this be? As far as I can see, it is precisely with seeks and gotos that you get structure into conversations, as opposed to a long series of one-liners! Well, there are other ways (memores), but seeks and gotos are important! Without seeks, you would be virtually starting fresh with each keyphrase! That's not what a real conversation is like! Most of them have a branching structure: what you say depends not only on what was said just before, but also in the previous interchange, and so on.

If this is true, it clarifies something I have long been puzzled about: I have found that many (not all!) bots which have high development scores are actually rather boring! Likewise, many bots for which I have high regard have few development points at all! I have heard others express the same opinion.

I was wondering why my new bot, "Quantum Theory," is still a newborn, when it is many times longer than my other new bot, "Irina Khalidar3," which has gone on to the next phase. Now I understand. "Quantum Theory" is a tutorial bot. The subject-matter is intricate. The core of the bot is a series of lectures. The lectures are divided into paragraphs, which build on each other in a fairly linear way. Can you imagine a physics teacher working like this: no textbook, no lectures, the teacher sits there and answers questions from the students. His answers depend overwhelmingly on the question being answered, and only rarely on what information has already been given out. She would have to always start at the beginning of every topic! How could anyprogress be made?