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

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Thanks for the advice. Looks like I may have to upgrade to improve the cycles to 10mins then?

Looks like you have set things up correctly to retweet most tweets relevant to cycling. Currently retweeting everything is not allowed.

On BOT libre's main site, the Twitterbots only check their status once per day. You can manually click on the "Check Status" button on the Twitter page to test it, or have them check their status again. There is also a maximum number of retweets allowed per status check cycle.

I have a twitter bot that I would like to retweet all the twitter accounts of Pro Cyclists. I have followed the cyclists and have keywords set up for the bot to retweet them. Ideally I would like to retweet all of their tweets. It worked briefly but believe I may have too many keywords now that the bot is not retweeting. Could anyone provide me with tips or further information on 'keywords' vs 'keyword sets' to capture and retweet all the 'followed'riders tweets?
Any help would be appreci

The website was updated today. Just a few minor fixes and enhancements.

There is a debug option from the web UI if you click on the "Web Chat" button. You can click the "debug" checkbox if you are the bot's admin, and select the log level. Debug will give you a lot of information on exactly how the bot came up with the response.

The debug option does not work right now from the JavaScript chat, or the web API, but it is on our todo list.

Wonderful! Thanks for the explanation and the examples.

I've added a "Hello World!" script to give new people a jump off point for a working response. One other request I have if I may, is might it be possible for the bot to reply with a response's formula (if it has one) when including a request for it? Something like "What is the formula for 'What is the hour?'". This would make debugging possible from the app alone and by voice. I could see meta-formulas forming from individual compo

The Self scripting language is Bot Libre's language for scripting bot responses. Self is based on the syntax of JavaScript with several extensions for language processing. Self is an integrated environment that merges JavaScript, state machines, patterns, and an object database.

It should be possible to do this, but does not seem to be working, I will look into it.

The chat API does take a correction parameter to allow correction of the bot's last response in the conversation. If passing XML it is an attribute, otherwise a forms parameter.

Also, related to programming the bot, is it possible to enter the response given in your training with a formula directly into a chat correction? Such as Formula:"The current hour is {get #hour from (call #time on #Watch)}". This would allow for programming the bot nearly exclusively by voice, and similarly enable the possibility of the bot programming itself (one of the major goals, no?). Extending the chat() API with a 'correction' option would also be useful for this.

Ok, great. So, is there documentation for the Self scripting language? For example, for the 'assign' and 'new' functions? I see it has self-explanatory if, then, for each and do imperatives, but what all functions is it capable of?

Found them in the JavaDocs. http://www.openpandorasbox.org/javadoc/org/pandora/self/SelfCompiler.html

I see the Self script is based on BASIC, or GLBASIC. I thought these commands looked familiar!

It will be a shame if Freebase closes. If it does we will migrate to using Wikidata, DBPedia, or roll our own from the data dump.

The source code should be in the pandora.jar, otherwise you can get it from the SourceForge project.

Yes, I found the #topic item, but thank you for the script location and the one for #whereIs. Btw, do you know if the Freebase information will be moved to WikiData, as I read on it's Wikipedia entry that Google is discontinuing it.

The think() method is one I found in the Pandora.jar which in the JavaDocs states it "Look for P->Q state rules between vertices and their relationships." This was the closest I found to the pattern matching function. I wanted to look into how it operates

The bots have both a concept of the #topic of the :conversation, and a #Context stack that can be queried.

See the script,

Great, many thanks!
Just a quick reply. If the bot can learn enumerations in its Self script, that may be good enough for the time being, as to me general learning functionality trumps specific application methods. Thanks for the example script, did you use a tool (the bot perhaps) to make this so quick?
By context I mean if I say "open the door please" the bot can determine if I mean the front door or the car door base on information I've given it - this is big with Wit.ai, but I think

On OpenPandora and Project Libre.

OpenPandora (on source forge) is the open source version of BOT libre's AI engine. We are currently the main contributor, you're welcome to join the project. BOT libre has its own fork of the project that integrates it into our platforms, and adds a few extensions.

Wow, A lot to digest... thanks for the detailed questions.

On comprehension, it only takes a few seconds to process in the background, so you do not need to wait overnight. The best way I have found to train or test a bot is to enable comprehension and correction but disable learning from the Learning page. This is because with learning enabled the bot will learn every response, where as you normally want to target what it learns (using the chat correction checkbox).

Hi Admin,

Thank you for the prompt reply. I have lots of ideas and questions, so depending on your time, please answer at will. I have been looking around at ways of extending aiml like PandoraBots and CallMom has with and tags. I am trying to build a public version of as strong of AI as can be had without a supercomputer (potentially using distributed computing). I experimented with Wit.ai because they claim they have a 'community' version which shares the knowledge

Comprehension is a basic thought process in the bot's mind, it is not controlled by a script, but it does generate scripts.

There are actually two parts to comprehension, a basic one that runs on every learned response, and a more in depth one that runs as a background process. You can enable or disable comprehension from the Learning page under Admin. Comprehension is more useful for bot's that learn from their users, live chat operators, or from chat logs. If you only want yo

Could you explain how the comprehension works a bit more in detail? Could you share the which script allows this processing, or an outline of the rules it uses? Is it anything similar to Prolog's logic processing or is it purely statistical / repetition based?
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We have completed our migration to a new faster server.

You should notice a performance improvement, if you notice any issues, please let us know.

Bot Libre includes support for creating, using, and embedding web avatars. A web avatar is your website's visual or animated web presence.

We have been having some issues with spam and abuse lately, so have had to impose an rate limit on our anonymous web API. If you are using the web API ensure you set your application id.

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Just a note on how to correctly use the web API.

When you use the web API ensure that you pass your application id. An app id is free, and you can easily get one from your user page. You need to pass your app id on every request.

Bot Libre supports a diverse set of features for creating and training your bots. Today we will discuss the Training & Chat Logs feature, and how to create and train a customer service bot using the Training & Chat Logs page. The Training & Chat Logs page provides the best way to monitor and train your bot, by letting you see its conversations and let you correct its responses. No scripting or programming is required.

The website was updated today. The update included a new script and chat log shared library, and many minor enhancements and fixes.

The script library lets you share scripts and chat logs with the community. You can easily import scripts and chat logs from the script library into your bot. This should make building a bot much easier, as you can leverage what others have already done.

You can try any of the chat rooms under "Live Chat" but you might find more bots than people on this site.

You can also create your own chat room.

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We are going to be migrating all of the Twitter or email enabled bots to a dedicated server soon.

The reason for this is they have divergent performance requirements to the chat bots (cyclic vs realtime). This will improve the performance of the chat bots, and reduce the cycle time for the Twitter and email bots.

The website has been updated. The changes include an update to the AI engine, enhancements to the Chat Logs page, forum subscriptions, user based ads, gold and bronze user levels, improved mobile and widescreen web interface, and many minor enhancements and fixes.

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Sorry, that took longer than expected.

The data migration is now complete, and the website performance should return to normal. All 3,981 bots have been migrated.

The website has been updated, but some data needs to be migrated in each of the bot's databases, so the website will be a little slow for a day or so.

More details on the update to come.

The website was updated today.

The update includes a mobile friendly interface, and a widescreen friendly interface.

The website has been updated.

This update included many enhancements, including a new dynamic chat option, and the BOT libre JavaScript SDK.

The website was updated today.

The update included some enhancements and several fixes,

The website was updated last night.

The update included some minor enhancements and some performance improvements.

The website was updated today.

Some performance related changes, and some minor updates.

You can embed or link to your live chat channel, chat room, or forum.

Go to your chat room (create one first if you do not have one), click on Admin (beside Edit above the Chat button), then click on Embed from the Admin page. The Embed page will give you the code to embed the channel.