The AI Engine

Number words are preprocessed to numbers expressed in figures. For number processing, this is a great idea, but it can look a bit ridiculous when a bot catches as a key something like

one another, the other one, one two three

and puts the preprocessed form of this into its response.

Is it impossible to compare a memory to other memories? For example, the following condition is not accepted:

<?PF if (self-talkedto) is not (name) [...] ?>

I get this error message:
ERROR: The following AIScript statement is incorrectly formatted: "if (self-talkedto) is not (name)". Please correct this and try again.

I might be wrong, probably am,
<?PF if (self-talkedto) is not "Big Bubba"; ?>
I think you would have to declare the name or use two statements.

I know that "hard-coded" names work, but the point is that I want to compare that memory to the name of the current user.

Sorry, I don't quite get what you mean with "declare the name or use two statements".

I am lost. You want a self memory compared to the user.
You have the name of the user? I meant using the name like Big Bubba or Bertha.
You can use multi statements. I don't think you can use (name) you might try. with parenthesis.
<?PF if (self-talkedto) is not "mem-name"; ?>;
<?PF if (mem-name) is "what ever"; ?>;
<?PF if (self-memoryname) does not exist; ?>

No, it can't be done, I believe this was asked, tried and tested 2 - 3 years ago. It wasn't possible then as it isn't now

Comparing memories with memories would make lots of sense, I think. (Maybe memories with plug-ins too.)

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I'm just considering whether it would make sense to enter a keyphrase (and response) like

(.*)(re) [-4,0] <?PF raw ?>
    Goto xnone

to prevent bots hanging up in contests because of too many BLABs in a row.

(it must be a regex, for any keyphrase starting with "*" or "(*" wouldn't be accepted.)

Anyone have an idea on how to use AI script to alphabetize a list.
for instance

Alphabetize moose, coin, boy.

It would be not too difficult to write a little program that creates hundreds of regexes to do that, but that's not quite what you have in mind, I suppose. Otherwise, as long as <?PF if (key1) <= (key2) ?> isn't accepted, I have no idea.

Speaking of which, should I be able to use (key1), (key2), etc. in AIScript conditionals? I seem to recall doing so, but currently, this:

<?PF if (key1) is "apple"; ?>

Returns this error:

ERROR: The following AIScript statement is incorrectly formatted: "if (key1) is "apple"". Please correct this and try again.

I could be wrong but I think you have to save the (key1) as a memory. like memsomething then use
<?PF if (mem-memoryname) is "memoryvalue"; ?>
Thus needing to use two AI scripts.

Iirc, memories are set only after a response has been formed, so this would probably fail if you use these scripts in the same keyphrase response pair.

If you want to compare a key to a fixed string, you could as well replace the wildcard in the keyphrase by that string. (If you want to compare a key to a memory that would be a different matter, but this seems to be impossible as discussed above.)