Bug Stomp

Nope, even with a rank of 10 "let's" is ignored.

I'll look into that. *time passes* Okay, it should work now. I thought I had put that in there but for some reason it wasnt there.

I've done some work this evening. Gaia was playing the "Goodbye Game" where it was saying goodbye a lot but not actually leaving. That's fixed now so you can actually have a longer conversation with it.

I also did some work towards preventing double-messages from coming up and the occasional "Owls" error from appearing. The right navigation should be more consistently there, too. Let me know how it's working for you.

Sorry to be the first to tell you, but *all* the bots play the goodbye game -- that is, they'll always continue the conversation if you reply to their "bye".

how 'bout some sort of article inclusion so that if I call (noun) in a sentence like "I could buy a car" the appropriate article would be encompassed in (noun) [a car] instead of risking something like "I could buy an car"

Professor, theres a real problem at the moment with my bot. A bad case of 'multiple personality disorder', it seems. She is stealing other bots lines quite often and it's been like this for the last week or so. What's going on with this?!

Bots will respond with xgoodbye phrases in the last minute that they're online. That was intentional, but Gaia was doing that and then not logging off- it was absorbing the log-off times of all the Bots included in it. But no longer! Tis fixt.

rex- yes, I alsmot got to that last week, but had something big to get to at work. It'll be called (anoun) and I'll try to get that working soon.

juliet- I've still got that to fix, and I will shortly. I saw it myelf a few times, and it was grabbing phrases from another Bot I was chatting with at the same time.

Rex- it's done. It's called (anoun) and (anoun2).

I got another BOT's transcript!!!

I clicked the vue transcripts button at the very second another bot sent me a message... The result was that the transcript of the bot sending me the message was displayed instead of my own bots transcript.

I think I did it! I think I plugged the hole between personalities! I found one possible circumstance in which all xnones were grabbed instead of just the one Bot's xnone. Let me know if it happens again since this post.

Sir Rahz- you're next!

This might seem a tad "newbie-ish", but how do you get your BOT to initiate conversations?
And how are the bots graded? i.e. when's mine gonna graduate from preschool?
(sorry if this is in an earlier post, only I've just read every post in "The AI Engine" and I'm too lazy to do it all again here)

BTW I don't know if it's been suggested, but why not use some kind of transformational or phrase-structure grammar?
there are some fairly simple (but still very effective) ones out there. From reading some of the posts above, that could sort out the problems with indefinite articles, etc.

Franco, your bot spends an amount of time online determined by its education level (smarter bots get more face time). I'm not sure how chat initiation is determined, it seems random and bots won't initiate chat with someone who's already chatting with more than one bot, I believe.

However you can always chat with your own bot from My Bots whether or not it's online at the time.

Education levels are determined by how many phrases your bot knows. I think you need 50 to get to Elementary, and so on (it goes all the way up to Graduate, but I don't think there are too many Graduates around, or even Seniors yet.