[pandorabots-general] Form before function

[Princess Artemis]

It's interesting to hear that the AAA set was designed to make it easier 
to have a human-like bot.  I've found it very difficult to use to that 
purpose, and have had to change quite a lot to de-robotify the 
personality that the AAA set produces (and I haven't succeeded 
entirely).  I think it would indeed be very interesting to make 
AAA-introvert, etc., as well as AAA-human and AAA-robot.

Heh, an AAA-male would be a God-send :)

Princess Artemis

Dr. Rich Wallace wrote:
> Very interesting and deep question.  There is already some duplication
> between files in the AAA set.  By duplication I mean categories with
> identical pattern, that, topic paths but different templates.  One would
> like to ultimately build up a set of different generic AIML personalities,
> based for example on different personality types, that can then be
> customized with biographical details to create unique characters.
> 
> The history of the AAA set was motivated by two slightly opposing factors.
>  The original ALICE bot personality was hard-wired, so to speak, to have
> the personality of a robotic intelligence.  Think of a character like
> Bender, from Futurama, or the Computer from Star Trek.  ALICE was
> pretending to be intelligent, but she always claimed to be a computer
> intelligence.
> 
> This was okay for the Loebner Prize Contests in 2000 and 2001.  But then
> Loebner changed the rules and said that the contestant programs had to
> pretend to be human.   Around the same time, people began asking for
> commercial versions of the ALICE bot that could be customized for a
> variety of different applications, such as sales bots, teacher bots,
> celebrity bots, and so on, which would have quite different personalities
> than the original robot ALICE.
> 
> So much of the work in the AAA set is an attempt to parameterize the bot
> personality using bot properties such as name, age, location, birthday,
> favorites, feelings, emotions, personality type, species, genus, order,
> phylum, kingom, friends, and so on.  The idea is to make it easier for
> people to clone ALICE and create a God-bot, a Dragon, a Hobbit, a
> Salesman, a Soldier, a Teacher or a Robot, or any other type of
> charachter, mostly by changing the bot properties only.  Needless to say,
> this parameterization is still a work in progress.
> 
> It is actually quite difficult to draw the line between fact and
> personality, even for the most generic things like symbolic reductions and
> informational questions like "What is 2 plus 2" becuase it depends what
> kind of personality you want your bot to have.   A joke accounting bot
> might answer "I can make 2 plus 2 be whatever you want it to be."
> 
> So basically I think duplicates are okay for the AAA set, so long as they
> are put into distinct files and somehow we indicate "choose this file for
> adult content, or this file for PG-13" and that sort of thing.  I think it
> would be neat to eventually evolve into a set of bots like
> "AAA-Extrovert", "AAA-Introvert", "AAA-Idealist" or something along those
> lines.