Newcomers

Can someone help me?!?!?!?!?!? when i go to create a bot... it asks me for the username and stuff. do i put my username in it?

No, I think you but your bot's name in.

you can make your own name!

Hi, I'm new here! I see people introducing themselves so I figured I'd be friendly and do so myself. I'm new to bot making entirely but I am very interested in it. I'm going through the book of AI, but I'm sure I'll be coming here for help. Reading through this has already helped a lot, so thanks

entertain us!

I hope you have as much fun as I do here, Teawasteland!

Hi! i'm a newbie here.. and really enjoying this. ttyl!

Welcome, and I hope you have as much fun here as I do.

This is fun and a lot easier than when I programmed AI in Lisp, Aida and Path Pascal (I have been out of programming for 12 years (22 years for AI) so I am a little rusty). Prof. Marvin Minsky (MIT AI Lab), who wrote my AI book, would have loved this. - Rick BS in Computer Science.

It's the best!

What's interesting (and also sometimes frustrating) to me from a programmer's perspective is that the aiengine has a mind and will of its own, so that the bot's behavior isn't necessarily determined by your own programming. I'm used to having complete control over my programs' behavior, so this is different for me. Also, aiscript is very primitive compared to most programming languages, which makes it difficult to write concise code. My bot has a lot of redundant code in it - much more than I'd normally be comfortable with (when programming for non-ai applications).

I'm not a CS person - I'm just a regular scientist with programming skill. I was teaching a programming course last semester and was thinking up projects to assign to my students - and chatbot was one of the ideas. That, combined with my curiosity about the technological singularity and evolution of ai, led to me getting the bug to write a post-singularity-themed sci-fi chatbot.

I think that is what I love about my bots. They develop their own personalities, no matter how hard you try to curb some behavior it takes on a life of it's own.