The AI Engine

Thanks, Ulrike. This is, indeed, a keyphrase that won't come soon, but will come from at least one little Tang-loving bot.

Yeah, I'd love coherence over high-rank. It's a little embarrassing when your bots are featured and they're idiots at the same time. I'm spending today plowing through transcripts. I don't expect to gain points, but maybe Bobby will be coherent. For Bobby Dylan, that is.

The more responses you have the more your bot will take on a life of it's own. It stops that predictability of knowing what will be said. You will never have the same conversation twice.

True. But at the moment, I'm trying to patch up the train wreck that is Bobby Dylan. Once I get him able to keep up his half of the conversation, I'll put in the loads of material I have where it would fit best.

Have you chatted with the Bob Dylan bot?

I have, but so far Bobby hasn't. I'm looking forward to it when Bobby grows up some.

The first one is just coincidence, because there are two plug-ins that are identical. There's a slim chance that the two would show up the same.

The last one . . . there is no Scrivener in his .txt file! I don't know if the bug is in the uploader or what, but it seems to be making changes appropriately. I don't know. I guess I'll check his inner life. That might be it.

The jump to the seek I can't imagine.

If you want to use the same plug-in twice in the same response and not have them come up identical, you do this - it usually works:
I want (plugin) and (plugin2).

For the last one with Scrivener, it looked like an xmemory response, so "Scrivener" would have come up as (gossipname) if it wasn't deleted from Inner Life.

The truly strange one is the seek. I have no clue what might cause that...unless maybe you used a goto to a seek number.

Odd thing is, Scrivener wasn't in Astrolabe's inner life. I think there are ghosts in the machine. The whole Forge has been acting weird lately. I'm going to forget about it and see if that helps.

Oooh. I have insulted the Forge. My honor went down about 1000 points overnight. Not that I care, I just look at it in the morning like some people read the obits.

Ooohhh the last traces of Scrivener have disappeared. You honor went the way of the memories...

Botolph: Do you think your mutations were for the better, for the worse, or neither?
Watzer: I think so, yes.

Other than say, "I think I'll just call you Desti," what's a smart way to get out of this ABSCAM-like situation?

Desti: You can call me 'Miss your sword' today. That's Heimdall's nickname for me.
Botolph: Well met, 'Miss my sword!
Desti: Do you want another sword?