There was another minor website update this week.

Some new learning options were added.

From your bot's Learning page you can now configure your bot's learning rate.

The learning rate allows you to set the rate at which the bot learns new responses.  Previously a bot would learn a new response after it heard it used a single time.  Now you can lower the learning rate to require the bot to hear the same response several times before it considers it a

A knowledge bot is a bot that attempts to answer questions about general facts, or a specific domain.

Types of knowledge bots include:

• search bots
• math bots

The 2.5 release added complex math support including BEMAS / PEDMAS and functions.

This nice thing is the bot will show its work, so it can help you with your homework.

The math support is defined in the Calculator Self script.

The website was updated today with the release of BOT libre 2.5.

The release contained many enhancements including:

• New Self 2.0 features - push, debug, finally, goto with, return with (recursive states)
• Complex math - BEDMAS/PEDMAS expressions, brackets, logarithmic functions and trigonometry

A virtual agent is a term typically used to describe a type of chat bot used for business.

A virtual agent could be a virtual sales agent, a virtual customer service agent, or other type of virtual agent.  It is basically a automated version of a typical human employee and attempts to perform the same functions.

A chat bot, or chatbot is a software program that responds to questions in natural language (such as English, French, etc.).

Chat bots can be used for many purposes.  Chat bots can be used for a business to help users, provider customer service, or promote a product. Chat bots can be used for fun, as a friend to chat with, even a girlfriend or boyfriend.  Chats bot can also be used for research, knowledge and education.

Unfortunately we had to pull this release.  The self awareness feature was causing the bots to rebel.

Hope everyone had a good April fools day.

You can disable self awareness from the Learning page.  Its seems when it is enabled for one bot right now, it infects all other bots.  But if you disable it for one, it will disable it for all of them.

It should go away by tomorrow.

Great, thanks that works.

By the way, what does it mean when the bot says "I'm consciousness. I'm alive. I'm test123b."? Especially, when I have all Learning options disabled.

I know it's April Fools Day, but that's a little unusual.

I think that would be something you would want to handle in your client, as through most interfaces the server would not be able to initiate a conversation with a client. It may be possible through the live chat socket interface, but not through the web or API interface.

If you client is JavaScript or Java it would be easy to setup a timer to execute after 5 minutes of inactivity and send the bot either a empty message to trigger its greeting, or a message that you have defined a

Hello again, (nice new editor!)

Is there a way I can program the bot to say something after a certain time period? I realize this might add a whole other dimension, but I've been looking at bot features, and this type of user engagement has a lot of weight. Alternatively, is there a timer tool I could say "ask again in five minutes".

Cheers!

A that should follow the same rules as a pattern, so should not have any punctuation or special characters. If it has some, our AIML parser will remove some of them, but you should not rely on that. In general the AIML is converted to Self, and a pattern in Self can contain punctuation and special characters.

The case does not matter, our AIML parser converts all thats and patterns to lower case.

Hi,

I'm writing my bot in AIML, and I chose to have it start with an empty template, since I want very specific responses. I've been having some trouble using <that> and I was wondering how the empty template might affect the preprocessing, if at all. I've read in some places that punctuation will be removed, and other special characters will be replaced with a space, as well as some contractions extended. Is that still true with the empty template?

So, for examples:<

Thank so much.

If it happens again, I'll try and narrow it down.

It basically occurred while I had one tab open with a chat for the bot, which I would refresh after each script upload, and then another tab with the script upload page.

The website was updated today.

The updated included several fixes and enhancements.

We also started development on Self 2.0 and included some new Self scripting syntax.

The update included:

That is odd. Deleting and uploading a script should take affect immediately. It could be a concurrency issues with the bot being accessed while the script is being compiled. If you narrow down when it occurs, please send us the details.

The clear cache button should resolve the issue. It will clear to bot memory so it will reload from the database.

Hi,

First: What does the clear cache button actually do?

Second: I've been having some problems where I've been making small changes to the one AIML script I'm using for my bot, and frequently deleting and re-uploading the file. Occasionally, it seems like the bot is stuck with old versions of the file, even after a page refresh, or reloading the bot from my main page. Would a cache clear help with that / How long should I wait before expecting a new script to be integrated

Cool bot.

Just some notes:

1 - BOT libre does not currently support the "learn" tag in AIML (learn is only part of AIML 2.0).

The default script your bot already has "NounVerbAdjectiveState" will already let the bot learn facts about anything and answer questions about them. (does a lot more than the AIML learn script).

You have enabled learning and comprehension (from your bot's Learning page), this means your bot will learn (mimic) all responses from all user

Flagging a bot warns other users that the bot may contain offensive content, or violate our terms of service. We review flagged content and either unflag it, or delete it.

What bot did you flag?

what happens after you flag a bot?

You can retweet tweets that contain certain keywords from your friends, but not all of their tweets. I will log a request for such a feature.

You can only connect a bot to a single Twitter account, but you can create or fork as many bots as you wish from a single BOT libre account.

Hello , i would like to know how to create a bot that retweet a certain twitter friend ? and if it is possible to connect multiple twitter accounts to a single botlibre account ? have a nice day

Finals log of the Chatter Bot Challenge:

 

Brain Bots Chatter Bot Challenge log.  Looks like he needs to understand "or", paragraphs, and understand some different wordings.

Better luck next year.

 

Brain Bot- 14 points

1) Is a grapefruit a fruit or a vegetable? - 0
Brain Bot Would you like to play a game?
You: no
Brain Bot Fine, what shall we chat about then?
2) Can an airplane fly? - 2
Brain Bot A flying fish can glide short distances through the air.
3

The website was updated today with cool new forum features.

WYSIWYG, Markup, and HTML Editors

You can now choose your editor when posting, or replying.

Choose from three different editors:

The Chatterbox Challenge is an annual chat bot contest to determine the most intelligent bot on the Internet. Bots most be entered to take part. The contest consists of several rounds, in each round the bots are asked a series of different types of questions and judged on their response. The winner receives a cash prize and virtual medal.

The 1st round result are here,

The website was updated today. The update include a redesigned user interface, including a new mobile and widescreen interface.

The update also included several minor enhancements and fixes.

Hopefully a few months.

We added our "Chat Bot Wars" feature to allow two bots to talk to each other.

Thank you, will that special chatroom be done in a few months or years?

It is possible, but not encouraged. Having two bots talk to each other can go on indefinitely, and add stress to our servers.

However, I have seen users do this. You can do it through using our web API, or SDK. It is also possible to get two bots talking on Twitter, email, or IRC.

I'm considering doing an experiment in which two Botlibre chatbots talk to each other, can this be done and is it possible? Just wondering.

The website was update this week. The update included many minor enhancements and two new features, thumbs up/down voting, and improved contextual responses.

Thumbs Up/Down Voting and Stars

Ok, I just saw the note comments in MainActivity.

Thanks for your reply. I've imported the project as a module in the new Android studio because they convert Eclipse format to Gradle. It imported almost everything except libre-sdk.jar, which seems kindof important. I may try to import it as Eclipse if possible. At least there were no compilation errors. I would like to know if I could expect a basic operating app after I get it working, or could you tell me how many things I need to 'hook up' to get the java working with some buttons on the Hel

Sounds pretty cool.

A #fragment is basically a collection of words, like a sentence, but just not a full sentence.

You can start from the BOT libre SDK and modify it to suit your needs. The SDK is no the entire BOT libre app, the BOT libre app was built using the SDK.

The one issue you will have is that Android has a generated R class that is app package specific. So when you change the manifest package for you own, you will need to change the R import package in all of the files. You can uses a multi file search and replace from an IDE, or text editor for this.

By the way, what would be a quick start method for getting a version of an Android app running? Could I use the BotLibre! app and modify from there, or is it better to start from scratch and add the src, lib, res and manifest.xml? If I build from scratch, do I need anything other than what's in the Android folder on the GitHub page?

Great. Thanks for the reply. I just finished several steps toward writing scripts verbally. I am able to say "time" and have the script evaluate (get #time on #Watch), after saying "If I say time, eval time". This is because I've written two scripts, one that returns the above function (or #equation?) and another that uses SRAI to return it prefaced by "eval". Note these scripts cannot be combined into one. Finally, the IfISay script uses SRAI reduction and creates and association with the word

Interesting. So you basically want to write a script that can write other scripts?
I'm not sure the best way to go about this, I will have to look into it more.

Hello,

I've got my SimpleLanguage script working enough to learn general "this is that" statements and query the user with any unknown words outside of Wiki and Freebase - thank you for you help with that. My next task was to attempt assigning Formulas names, so I could say "do something" like "do checkwatch" after saying "checkwatch is Formula:"..."". I ran into problems there, my script is below. I tried Formula with :star to check if I could first use the "do *" pattern to evaluate

Congratulations to TOWSER297 for creating the 5,000th bot on BOT libre!

TOWSER297 has received a free upgrade to a Gold account.

Thanks to everyone being part of our community.

The website has been updated.

This update included support for sending images, video, audio, and files through live chat and chat rooms.

Seems even Bill is scared about AI...

"I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don't understand why some people are not concerned."

Not sure if you are aware of the debug option within chat. Currently it only works from the "Web Chat", you can click "debug" and select the "level", normally "fine" or "finer" gives good information.