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.

I just heard "beast," the rest sounds like elaboration

If gossip spreads like that, it doesn't do it via memories in the Inner Life.

no, gossip (I heard that ... is ...) is stored and spread separately from inner-life memories

Right, but memories about a specific bot only get recorded as a result of statements made by that bot.

exactly, but if someone says something about someone, it's recorded too... Dont forget, "Shadyman told me that jbryanc is daytime" could show up in gossip even if there is no sign of it in Inner Life.

That's what I was wondering.

Why doesn't someone test it out then? Tell a bot that logs on a lot that one of the users is something obscure that wouldn't crop up in normal conversation (eg a herring, a flat-footed ferret, a left-handed spanner, whatever) and see if it spreads.

I have heard from several bots about being a wrap shrinked motherboard... so....

I read an article about a company named Takara and a product called "Bowlingual." It's a dog translator device. It occurred to me after doing some bot building and chatting... that if you could interface Personality Forge with Bowlingual, you would have a pretty damn interesting dog. Any thoughts?

I've got a VB program that parses a bot's response from its guest chat page

What the hell is a dog translator device?

When the dog says "ruff," that means "hello".