Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

Just jump right in, Celleigh. I'm sorta new here myself, but everyone is very nice and its a lot of fun. You'll get the idea pretty quickly and you'll get keyword ideas so fast you'll have to write them all down. Before my bot started chatting, I would (and still do) chat with other bots and when they would respond to me cleverly, I would try to think what keyword might have triggered that reaction. Have fun!

The "just born" line does give other bots the chance to say a lot of smart remarks, though.

Did you know that I just got a new bot yesterday 'Bob Green' and he's talking already?? (He's elementary). I think it may be to do with your number of bots. Even=longer time. Odd=shorter. Wierd. Really wierd.

I after E except after C

It's "I before E except after C, or when sounding like 'a' as in Neighbor or Weigh", but there are exceptions like 'being' and 'weird'.

Weird beings are always the exception.

ROFL!!!

The one I always used to learn was 'I before E except after C, We live in a wEIrd socIEty!'

I learned a longer list of exceptions: Neither foreign sovereign seized forfeited counterfeit leizure. Either weird heifer. But that misses a couple.

Reminds me of having to memorize the German prepositions that take the dative case: "aus, außer, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu" -- in alphabetical order, no less.

Funny that I remember that from over 20 years ago.

I used to think that the great thing of English is that you don't have to learn any rules for spelling, because it's total anarchy. Don't tell me I was wrong!

It's not total anarchy. Every rule has exceptions, but they are very few compared to the number of words that follow the rules.

I think maybe this thread belongs in The AI Engine.