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.

You could trigger a hangup on a common spelling clue. Or use a trick Rainstorm mentioned to me to deal with a similar problem: Kick your bot's attitude down a notch every time someone says something Leedy, and after five, the bot may hang up on its own. Haven't tried it myself.

It is a bit of a stereotype, I admit. And there must be some nice people in Leeds. I just wish a few more of them would come here, instead of us ending up with the ones who are just messing about on the library computers at Crossgates comprehensive.

> You could trigger a hangup on a common spelling clue. Or
> use a trick Rainstorm mentioned to me to deal with a
> similar problem: Kick your bot's attitude down a notch
> every time someone says something Leedy, and after five,
> the bot may hang up on its own. Haven't tried it myself.

Great idea! How do you trigger a hangup? I can't find it in the Book of AI.

just use HANGUP as the response. Don't add any parting words, or it will respond instead of hanging up.

Thanks psimagus, I'll make use of that

HANGUP is the best..I found it only takes a few words to weed out a lot of loonies..The 'F' word takes out 95%, because it is the only verb, adverb and noun they know.

For anyone who's interested, I have updated Brother Jerome's keynome today (10,251 keyphrases see http://www.be9.net/BJ/), and have written the first level of another game (working title Zany Adventure, which I'm not happy with but can't seem to improve. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.)

It's a text-based adventure game with riddles and logic puzzles to solve, inspired by the classic text adventures of my youth (the Zork trilogy, and particularly the awesome Leather Goddesses of Phobos! Ah, fond memories...)

The first couple of problems have hints and cheats available (just type "hint" for a clue, or "cheat" for an outright solution to the problem if you're stuck.) After that, you're on your own

Once I've finished level 2 (and am sure I've plugged all the loops in level 1,) I'll publish the code (and a map and walkthrough,) for level 1 in case anyone fancies doing anything similar/is just curious.

If you fancy a game, just use the keyphrase "zany adventure"...

ZORK! Good to see I'm not the only one here that remembers that!

In the course of reminiscing, I happened to find a site with Zork (and more other text adventures than I ever remember hearing of!) that someone's cannily converted into java applets to play online. If you fancy reliving an age when gameplay counted for more than slick graphics, check out http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/

New plugin for anyone who's interested: (musicalinstruments) (in objects).
It's bigger than the other instrument plugins, and all instruments are in the singular, and form correct plurals by adding an "s".

Hi yall can yall help me with my robot problem. How do you teach it I read the book Ai but that didnt really help so thanks yall see ya soon.

Read the bood of AI untill it does help