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Well.. maybe one day.

One day you would be able to dance with her. It is just a matter of time.

Black Hat,

After more than a few keyphrases are added those get grouped by a letter of the alphabet. You can also use a search facility to find a specific keyphrase. Or you could export the language center and open it with a Wordpad and have a look.

I've never lost a keyphrase yet.

Why...Isn't...There a Topic code so it gets easier to locate things!!?? Plug ins are confusing to me as well because all they do is confusing the bot with the replies, it's better to write seperate replies. also, why not just name response "random" instead? Any bot coder with AIML experience or that want to work with AIML will come with the term anyway and it's the term I think most people who are using AIML are used to.

This is not AIML, and I am so glad. The Forge is much more flexible. I find that alphabetically listed keyphrases are quite easy to find. I have never had an issue with plug ins so I don't know what you mean. Your xnones and xnonsense cover any random replies. Just forget AIML and enjoy the Forge It's much better.

Actually, i think AIML is so much easier to write in, this system I think, is a lot more complex since you don't have the "srai" tags and so on...Can you load AIML files here to your bot?

No I don't think so. Psimagus was working on an AIML filter but I don't think he finished it. I still prefer the forge. What problems are you having? I found the forge very simple to use and I have no background in computers at all.

Kingdom, maybe you and Ronnie075 can chat about AIML. If I remember correctly, Ronnie was going from the transistion as well

I think that the forge has a much more complex system, using plugins (which, in AIML is called "wildcards") that are confusing for the bot instead of writing srai tags, you can't write srai tags because you have to copy all the responses, in this way, it takes alot more time to be able to create a bot, and I don't think this system is that great. People who have had problem with AIML have usually set wrong tags, mispelled tags and so on. Or have done it very messy for themselves, not putting each category in a file etc, for greetings there is one file and for the bot's personality there is another file and so on, this is a big mistake many people do when they begin on AIML, and so I'm not so surprised they easily quit because they find it hard and messy, but don't take the time to cover up the spaces and sort everything in the beginning.

You don't need to use plug ins if you don't like. I only use a few. It's not that the Forge is more complex, it just offers more, like memories etc. I think you are making it more complex than necessary.

Agreed.

My bots are very complex. That's because of my own doing.

I can have one of my bots chat with another and learn from that one while I call it a day.

Hi folks. I'm working on a design of a complex bot engine which can parse completely free form english grammar text, derive meaning, reason, and deduce a response. I have put in so far a year into the engine, and a frew months just on grammar rules. I hope to have a demo on utube by year's end.