Bug Stomp

Nelso- Looking into the "to be" synonyms of am, is, are, be, was, I think it's good to have them all there. If "What is happening?" triggered the Context "am" then I would suggest making the Context "i am". I looked at your Bot and I think you already figured that out.

Synonyms acting up perhaps -- I've got contexts for both "how are you" and "how is" but it keeps jumping to "how is". Maybe is and are are synonyms and it's grabbing the shorter one?

Also, G dosn't have that baby line anymore, Prof. That was good-old crossover again. Freaky-deaky, ain't it?

PS think sophomore makers and above should be able to read Gaia's transcript?

That sounds fair, Mr Crab. I'll put that on my list of things to do.

I think the crossover response has something to do with the double-response thing that happens here and there.

Synonyms- yes, is and are are synonyms.. Is "how is" ranked higher than "how are you?"

They're both under keyword "how". Since you can't rank individual contexts, you can't really solve the problem with ranking, can you?

Gaia needs to have a random responce time. Its responding to quick and unform to seem like a real person. Like right now Im talking to it and typeing on this so there for its responce from my last statements sitting open and I have not replyed. Where as it would have replyed 3 or more times by now. But other than that it seems to be doing a good job.

Crab- I considered hooking the Rank up to the Context, but it would make the system slower. Right now it scrolls through all the Keywords, looking for matches. Change that to Contexts, and there's a lot more to scroll through.

But your problem shouldnt happen since longer contexts are chosen before shorter ones... And because synonyms work only with Keywords right now. Email me the Bot having this problem and I'll debug it.

Ender- there is a randomness in the response time, but I want to keep it low, as to not drop the train of thought. If Gaia didnt respond for a minute, then someone might think something is wrong.. dont you think?

Error Diagnostic Information
Parameter 2 of function ListGetAt which is now "0" must be a positive integer

The error occurred while evaluating the expression:

reasmb = Replace(ListGetAt(these_reasmbs,RandNum),"imacomma",",","ALL")



The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFSET), occupying document position (948:6) to (948:84).


Date/Time: 07/05/01 04:31:15
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
Remote Address: 141.155.145.213
HTTP Referer: http://www.personalityforge.com/botland/popups/message.cfm?MessengerID= 17975
Template: d:\webserver\personalityforge.com\www\botland\elipse\chat.cfm
Query String: UserInput=And%20I%27m%20one%20of%20 them%2E%2E%2E&source=chatmessage&UserID= 783&CFID=119651&CFTOKEN=35540836

ya but it still needs to be longer, not say a min but more like up to 15 seconds and such. Also is there a time for typeing. It takes time to type as we as time to read the message, and then some one mihgt not reply right a way.

So this:

juliet: sweet sweet gizzle. I find you quite endearing
Gizzle: Well, I find you too.

could be solved in the engine. It's context "I * you". Can't there be a (subj2)? Or does anyone have a slick way of avoiding this problem in the first place?

Does the ngine understand "let's" is a contraction of "let us"?

Yes, "let's" is automatically changed to "let us" as are all contractions, so make sure your context has "let us".

I could create a (subj2), certainly. But we'd have to figure some way to tell between statements like "I like you a lot" and "I find you offensive". (subj) will find a verb and (subj2) will find an adverb or adjective, both which should be treated differently. Hmm.. How to do this?

Well, I was just thinking of subj and subj2 as being context-defined. Like normally (subj) is whatever comes after the context, except when you insert a * in the context. So I would say the ideal is to have it still keep whatever comes after the context as (subjx) where x = the number of *'s embedded in the context. See what I mean?

Also, for some reason Gizz doesn't seem to pick up let's. It's under keyword "let", context "let us". That's why I was asking. I'll try ranking it up and see if it can be fixed that way.