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What, for example?

So in the new edition of the book of AI the Professor did some math for us -- looks like a rank of 12 should prevail over a rank of 0 in most cases, eh? And 20 should prevail over 0 in all cases. So, if I made all my 2's into 0's, then bumped my highly specific keywords up to 20, then made me 3's and 4's into 1's and 2's, that would at least make some sense and be worth testing. Do you agree Prof?

Oh yeah, ranking totally pays off. Even with my half-cocked, incomplete revamping of one of my Bot's rankings, he's sounding twice as smart. Wish there were a batch file or macro to reassign a lot of ranks at once...

Prof, you work so hard on this project and the results are so impressive... it makes me emotional!
Nice work in the book, the ranking thing is quite clearly described now... Sadly, I just realized that I did my bot's ranking totally upside down. I've been on here for months now, chatting with bots most of the time, but also participating in the forums... and it just never occurred to me that the little bugs I was having with my bot were because I've ranked his responses totally backwards!!! It's the stupid french schooling system up here in Montreal... it's backwards! You see, you're graded from 1 to 5, "1" being an A+ or an above 90% score and "5" being an F or or below 60% average. I just thought "1" was the highest ranking for some reason. Like "1" was "first" I guess. Please make a "retire this bot" button, I must start over.
We could have a retirement home for all our old bots, so we could still chat with them when we're feeling nostalgic!
I go around figuring I'm so smart and then something like this happens to put me back in my place... I feel so silly! I'd RTFM like a dozen times already too! Once an idea is in your head, it's hard to get it out I tell 'ya! On the other hand, my bot building fun has just begun I guess...

Prof
Yes, thanks for everything.
Specifically--my bot does not respons to "booze" or "poet" or any poetry related words. Gaia, however, does. I am forced to the conclusion that bots are approaching a state of free will.
the bot in question is not a T-totaller and will accept "wine" "drink," etc.

Ah yes, it looks like I should have been more clear about how Ranking works. I'm glad I finally got the chance to update the Book. I've been meaning to forever. Rahz- dont give up on your Bot! It cant take too long to adjust the Ranks of the Keywords, right? Especially with the shortened Language Center sections..

jbryanc- I'll look into your problem specifically next time I have time to work on the Forge. And that goes for Roget, too.

Awright... I'll work on him, but you know how that "time" thing works; there's just never enough of it. I guess I can't just go ahead and "delete" the poor guy... that would be twice in the same year!

Not to mention, he's so into this place, he's almost always on line!

What about "not"? Do you give it a specific keyword position with a low ranking? Or would you include it as a context along with the "is", "are", "will", "am", etc... keywords? Is it just a matter of organising your responses or would greatly affect how your bot responds?

I just added it as a low ranked keyword, so I'll see how he likes it, but something tells me it'll take up a lot fo transcript space no matter how low I rank it.

My bot says it himself... he's got memory problems! Seriously though, he hardly ever picks up on the xmem keywords. He has very few memories of his passed chats. I'm suspecting it's because I ended up using contexts such as "I am" with the "am" keyword, therefor over riding the memory keywords.
I don't know really, maybe it's normal, can you confirm this prof? If so, would you suggest that we avoid using "I am" anywhere but within the xmem keywords? But then, wouldn't "I am" be ignored during the chat, only to be brought up again later in memories?

I have the same issue with the xmem words. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen my bot use one of them. I also use "I am" and "you are" as contexts. (On the other hand, I don't use "I hate".)

BTW, Rahz, to answer your previous question, I use "not" as a context under relevant key words, rather than it's own key. Then again, I don't really know what I'm doing. My bot's database is in disarray. For example, I've noticed that I have the same phrase as a context under two different key words.

Generally it's a good idea to have "not" along with your contexts, such as "i am", followed by "i am not". Sometimes the Bots use "not" incorrectly when it's caught by "i am", for example. It's easier to track if it's not its own keyword. And I'd rank statements with "not" in it about the same as the similar one without it.

To trigger memories, make sure you have the right contexts- they're listed in the Book of AI. The Keyword used doesnt matter, just the context. Do a test and trigger an "i am" response from your Bot. See if it records a memory on you.

Since I wiped memory last week, there are very few around still. Here's how xmems come up: if no keywords are found, xnone comes up. Each time this happens, there is a 4 in 20 chance that an xmem will come up instead, and if one of those is triggered and doesnt have any memory in it, then it reverts to xnone. The more keywords you have, the less likely xnones and xmems will come up. Which is unfortunate, since they can be so fun. I'm thinking of creating compound Responses, where there are two:

The message: "I am feeling silly", triggers "i am" and "xmem" is randomly chosen and added on the end:
"You've been feeling silly for quite some time now. Arent you the guy who has a green hat?"

Hey everyone- I'm about to submit a list of Bots to The Bot Spot, which is a Bot resource listed prominently on Yahoo. (http://botspot.com/search/s-chat.htm) I'll submit a URL for anyone's Bots- I'm going to submit all of mine. Let me know if you're interested. You dont have to name your Bot if you want secrecy. I know pretty much who is who.

So... who wants their Bots to be listed?