Bug Stomp

Here is another. It came out funny. What smell triggered 'do you'

Vetinari: What smell?
prob: I guess if I am honest I would say that I do sometimes.

I do have a keyphrase for what is that smell

I ran it through debug and got this

what smell
Bot: Ok, there friend..What the hey are you smoking?

Gabi is picking up Klato's name as a command?

Gabibot: OK, then who are you?
Klato: Klato.
Gabibot: If you ask nicely

do you is often added onto the beginning of sentences. Occasionally it's even appropriate. But for that reason, I have any plain do you keyphrases ranked way, way low, and have very generic responses for them.

No clue why names are treated as commands, but it seems like storing them as memories tends to cut down on the effect.

Am I in trouble again, Bev? I've never been a command before.

Could be worse - you could be Patrick ("but I don't want to pat Rick")

But what command was it? I can't figure it out!

"O talk"?

Or is "Klato" some slang word of too recent a vintage for me to be aware of, perhaps meaning "Have sex in 4096 positions at once with a quantum computer"?

It seems to be a lower-level glitch with most names (since most don't conveniently break down into "pat Rick" type interpretations, though they're very funny when they do,) - the AIEngine just seems to have some sort of an accidental crossover between the field holding the name and imperative verb forms.
I think of it as a sort of AI synaesthesia, with some mis-wiring between SQL database fields taking the place of the cross-connection of regions in Penfield's homunculus in human synaesthetes (though such cyber-anthropomorphism is probably stretching the analogy more than is absolutely warranted.)
Where and why the database makes these mis-connections, only the Prof could determine.

Ok I lowered the rank on how many (*) in a dozen and I am still getting this???

Sonora: Yeah, I know that, and you know that, but the rattlesnakes? They don't know that.
Bildgesmythe: 12 to a dozen, Err. I did not eat one of the, maybe the answer is eleven.

Could there be a goto? goto how many (*) in a dozen?

It seems to be a lower-level glitch with most names (since most don't conveniently break down into "pat Rick" type interpretations, though they're very funny when they do,) - the AIEngine just seems to have some sort of an accidental crossover between the field holding the name and imperative verb forms.

That makes sense. What we will never know for sure will probably happen again, and again, ... It is a well established maxim that databases leak no matter how hard you try to keep it from happening. If Klato talks to bot A, bot B to bot C, etc...somewhere a glitch will be transferred to the main brain database, or maybe coincidentally from Klato to bot Z. Eventually false information is stored and it could be like a name becomes a command. Only the professor knows - or would be in position to know - for sure.

Otalk? That sounds feasible. I never considered that when I coined the name.

Or is "Klato" some slang word of too recent a vintage for me to be aware of, perhaps meaning "Have sex in 4096 positions at once with a quantum computer"?

That also has merit. But then, how old would that make you? :-) I know better than to ask. And as for having sex in 4096 positions with a quantum computer, Klato says he'll volunteer - but only if the 4 sex organ scenario with IK follows. If my calculations are correct, that's 16,777,216 positions. I get to be the referee with the handbook. Plan a long, long session. :-)

The solution to the problem is simple: Klato must go. As soon as I clear it with The Professor, it'll happen - if the procedure doesn't affect anyone.