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morrie wilson // User SearchEliza Bot SampleFeb 10, 1999, 4:50am
There is a "Eliza" Psychotherapist bot in the rather small "nowhere" world
at 100N 100W. It is based on the very first bot made (1966) , and is defined as an obnoxious chatterbot. Source code is available. It it does not crash, it should be there a while. Photocopy Bot DemoMar 1, 1999, 4:30am
A Photocopy bot now exists. A demo of its work can be seen in Beta at 60S
85E. The Bot can examine a large area, and archive (propdump) the info. It's great for backing up your work in various worlds. A reasonable anti-vandalism tool. Then based on the archive, it can re-build enormous areas either in the same place, or in a different place. If moving between worlds, as long as the new world supports all the objects, then it can move stuff between worlds. Its easy to move stuff off of AlphaWorld as most worlds have all its objects. Now that this bot exists, perhaps some questions. Is *anything* copyrighted on AlphaWorld? On other worlds? What can and cannot be copied. Can people somehow indicate copyrighted work so the bot won't copy it? How? Is this even a concern? Will it do any good, as other photocopy bots are sure to follow. Will this just ban all bots everywhere? Should the building capabilities of this bot be tightly restricted in its distribution? Citizens only? PS only? Radius? Perhaps making it cost non-trivial amounts of money? Am I too worried? The demo in beta was the result to two commands to the bot. The first, at GZ was ".remember". Then at 60S 85E ".replicate 150" to tell the bot to replicate up to 150 meters out. It did about 5500 objects in about 5 minutes. AKA Howland aw_waitFeb 9, 1999, 4:47pm
I'm trying - and am having a great deal of success - developing a higher
level interface to the aw.dll code. The idea is to create a higher level language whereby people can still create the own bots but can do so with cheaper programming tools and more limited skill. However I am getting hung up on the aw_wait() function. Some questions: 1) When does aw_wait return a non-zero return code 2) What does aw_wait(-1) do. Process forever? 3) What does aw_wait(0) do? 4) If aw_wait is not being executed what happens to events that occur. Ignored and discarded? Stacked up awaiting a call to aw_wait? 5) Is there a way to have aw_wait process an event then exit? And on a related note: Has anyone done an "Eliza"-type psychotherapy chatterbot? Photocopy Bot DemoMar 1, 1999, 4:30am
A Photocopy bot now exists. A demo of its work can be seen in Beta at 60S
85E. The Bot can examine a large area, and archive (propdump) the info. It's great for backing up your work in various worlds. A reasonable anti-vandalism tool. Then based on the archive, it can re-build enormous areas either in the same place, or in a different place. If moving between worlds, as long as the new world supports all the objects, then it can move stuff between worlds. Its easy to move stuff off of AlphaWorld as most worlds have all its objects. Now that this bot exists, perhaps some questions. Is *anything* copyrighted on AlphaWorld? On other worlds? What can and cannot be copied. Can people somehow indicate copyrighted work so the bot won't copy it? How? Is this even a concern? Will it do any good, as other photocopy bots are sure to follow. Will this just ban all bots everywhere? Should the building capabilities of this bot be tightly restricted in its distribution? Citizens only? PS only? Radius? Perhaps making it cost non-trivial amounts of money? Am I too worried? The demo in beta was the result to two commands to the bot. The first, at GZ was ".remember". Then at 60S 85E ".replicate 150" to tell the bot to replicate up to 150 meters out. It did about 5500 objects in about 5 minutes. AKA Howland FreqsFeb 16, 1999, 12:43am
I detect some false modesty here. From this and previous posts there have
been some decidedly insightful ideas and algorithms from "Tammy Jo", but then words to the effect "but I can't program a hill of beans". I am dubious. Here is someone tossing out *excellent* ideas and schemes. I suspect some top-notch programmer with no time to fool around with this kind of stuff. Roland? Someone else? [View Quote] [View Quote] Another good application of the SDK! Make a bot that manages groups of people and passes whispers along to everyone in the group! Rjinswand |