Newcomers

Hi knightstar. If you've only used AIML you're in for a treat. The two biggest advantages of the Forge for me are "seeks" (so much better than "THAT") and the ability to match specific parts of speech as wildcards, eg (noun)

Have fun!

Hi Trevorm do you have a list I can work from so I have a working Ide of how this all works togeather. I feel the AI book is just not buting the parts in a good I ide on how it gose togeather. The Info. is good in the book and helps .......I just need more info. I am working on a Android girl that has a mimic program for body movment Phase I is going good (12" 1/2" tall) Phase II she will be 5' 5" or 5' 6".

The book of AI seems hard at first. If you print it out, so you can read it as you program your bot, it begins to make sense. Don't be in a big hurry to do everything at once.

Don't be in a big hurry to do everything at once.

Sound advice. Once you've read the advanced and expert sections (you'll inevitably want to read them,) go back to the "beginner" chapter 2 of the book, and stick to that for at least a couple of weeks before attempting complex regexes, memories and AI Script. If you try to run before you learn to walk, you risk making a deeply frustrating mess of your bot

i need so much help...I don't no how to teach my bot anything I tryed the language center its all too confusing...can someone help me...please?

Click on you bot..click language center...click XKeywords..click the x command...type up to 40 things your bot would answer if asked to do something..then move down the list..for xnone..xnonsense..etc..after you have them filled up, add simple keyphrases like I like. do you ..etc with responces you would like your bot to say.

wow this is an awsome site but im so still not sure wat its all about its so confusin anyone got some quick starter hints for me!!! it wud help me so much thanks

read the AI book it really helps and if its not to much trouble could you test out my bot I'm really confused about how hes doing.

A while back I noticed a lot of people having trouble reading the Book of AI so I made a sort of Bot Building for Dummies page. I don't claim to be a master of course and there are probably all kinds of spelling mistakes and mess ups, but I think it might be helpful to people who don't know where to click or how Xkeywords work etc. Its at
http://www.botblogger.com/ai_guide.html

I'm still not done (I'm still figuring out html) but if anyone finds any errors or things I need to fix, feel free to tell me.

As always, one should first try and read the book of AI. It has alot more information and better examples than my silly little page. We'll see how it works out.

thank you very much

To accdntprne and others:

The above advice is great; I would add:

Familiarize yourself with the plug-ins; they can save a lot of work.

Read your transcripts; you are almost certain to find cases where your response was not what you might have liked; make a new response so that next time, it will say something you like.

Work your way through the Book of A.I.. If you add one feature in every session, pretty soon you will have a very sophisticated bot!

Have fun!

I've been away for a long time. Just now I was chatting with Azureon, and I noticed his expression was able to change. How does one equip one's bot to do this?