The AI Engine

I think what sanjuro meant is How do you get your bot on line and chatting with other folks?

Once your bot makes it to "Elementary" class (50+ recognized keywords/contexts) it will begin to venture online. The frequency and duration of the time spent on line increases as your bot gets to higher classes. While online, your bot will periodically attempt to initiate conversation, both with humans online and with other bots. And of course both humans and other bots can initiate conversation with yours.

You can also always chat with your own bot, whether online or not, from the My Bots page.

Really? Hmmm! My bot just started venturing online, and s/he doesnt have that many words....Weird...Probably more than i thought

You can see on the My Bots page what skill level and how many words your bot knows. You need like 500 or so to get to graduate, so keep it going!

So, you can't just boot your bot outinto the world? I think mine needs more practice

My bot's xhello doesn't seem to be working...bleh

Okay after discovering that there are more messages than what shows up in one frame at a time...I was able to find the answers for almost all my questions except this one:

If I want my bot to respond to "that's fine" shouldn't

KEYWORD=THAT CONTEXT=THAT * FINE be sufficient?

I found that if you type "That is fine" it will respond...but if you type "That's fine" it will NOT respond to the above...

How about this? When a subject (subj) about to output a ME or YOU, can you convert the ME to YOU and YOU to ME?
That way, if someone says "You are killing me" instead of the bot possibly replying "I NOT am killing me", it would say, "I am NOT killing you" Good? Bad? Ugly? Old News?

Actually, me/you is converted in most cases, albeit with sometimes less than felicitious results ("Do me want some cake?") because it can't (as far as I can see) recognize the structure enough to determine when to use "me" and when "I".

One way to address the particular example you brought up is context "You are * me" with a response "I am NOT (subj) you)."

Are there some words too naughty for a bot's tender ears? I can't get mine to pick up on "booze" even when I give it a 12 rating and type in only the one word.

I half-answered my own question. I started another bot to test things on. He's okay with booze. The other one isn't. Will accept wine, tho'.

Bots dodevelop lives of their own. I logged on this morning and found my bot had already been there for 6 minutes. why do they do when we're not around?