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theseer, I just chatted with yours. She's progressing ok for a beginner; you just need to give her LOTS more to say. She should especially start out with a lot of xnone responses, because it's impossible to predict everything that someone will say to her.

Ok...ummm someone talk to my bot plz..lol...I've worked hard on it and I wanna see if it was worth the hardwork.... heres the link
http://www.personalityforge.com/directchat.php?BotID=15758&MID=15757

Oh and how do you chat to a certain bot by pressing in the link?

I did as you requested TombRaiderGurl. I tried to be polite to your bot, but your bot suddenly decided it didn't want to talk to me anymore. How rude!

That happens from the link if the bot hasnt enough to say yet.

Hi! I put a check in the "storyteller bot?" box in "Settings," and I thought that would result in the responses coming up in the order in which they appear in the language center listing. But it seems at times to jump randomly? What am I doing wrong?

Thank you Athyrius. I didn't realize it would automatically shut the bot down like that. I visited Polaris last night and gave it a nice run with good old human interacting with bot. T'was fun. I think a bot gets a much better workout conversing with a human don't you?

This one is for "The Professor". First up... you are doing a fantastic job with "The Personality Forge". You obviously have quite a passion for AI. I must admit that I was so impressed with the work you've done to date, that I sent you a small token of my appreciation. Keep up the good works!

I wanted to ask you for your thoughts on the site located at http://www.a-i.com where an international project has been founded to create a true artificial intelligence. Their research center is near Tel Aviv, Israel where they intend to "raise" their child machine from infancy to adulthood, "teaching" him to interpret and respond to ordinary conversation.

I've worked with their HAL bots and have been frustrated by the lack of such features found in your AI scripting language. I've been back many times but I always get the feeling it may be years before we will see something that can approximate a human/bot conversation. Have you ever checked them out and if so what did you think?

Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it.

I took a quick look at a-i.com and it looks like they're at pains to build something that already exists: WordNet. The Personality Forge uses WordNet already, so all the classes and rules already exist here.

And to me creating a realistic AI is as much about the programming side as the guidance side. While someone could make a realistic bot by writing thousands of keyphrases and responses in an earlier versions of the PF, each addition to the AI Engine creates a leap that no amount of previous guidance could match.

Translation: PF upgrades rock

Professor, you obviously have a clear direction and plan for where this will go. I wouldn't want you to give away any "trade" secrets, but I'd love to hear a "generic" version of what you might have in store for us down the pike. I get a feeling that given the right kind of funding/grants and your loyal user support, (and unlimited time) you'd have no trouble "hitting the ground running".

Am I right?

And please... I'm just as curious about what makes you tick as I am in how you've carried all this out so far.

John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania (USA)

I CAN'T SEEM TO MAKE A BOT!!!!!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!