Re: Robots

• Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 13:52:02 PDT
• From:
  Vic Bancroft <bancroft@aisun1.ai.uga.edu>
• cc: moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
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John Maxwell wrote:
>patrick wrote:
>>This thread started off with the question for MOO-code bots. Well, I think
>>that approach shouldn't be underestimated if the thing does only little 
things.
>>And then goes to sleep for a longer period.
The current Bots we are running at AICore have two modes of operation.  
The first 
is a regular expression pattern matcher triggered by moo events (anything 
which
invokes the :tell verb).  If the left hand side of a rule set is 
triggered, the 
bot performs a substitute() on a response randomly selected from the 
set.  The
response can also be the result of a verb invoked from the invoked rulle set.

There is also a :lifecycle verb that can be made active for the bot, 
which can
provide some degree of autonomous action on the part of the bot.  Such 
active 
agents should be monitored for '@forked' behaviors.

>A strategy might be: write your bot in MOO-code only if it's
>temporarily active and triggered by MOO events. If the thing is
>intended to run continuously, better to have it exist external
>to the MOO, and to log in as a player.
We are considering moving some of the code found in the markov chainers 
into c,
and providing 'built-in' support for construction of large sets of 
chains.  In
addition, another project at AICore requires an external interface to quintus
prolog, which may provide an interesting new set of built-in calls for 
definite
clause grammers and graph unification.

>Most 'pets' and greeting-objects and whatnot do not need to run
>continuously -- just when somebody actually triggers them... so
>there's no need for endlessly-forking objects.
It is worthwhile to allow moo bots to begin a lifecycle as part of a 
triggered
behavior, providing a more 'life-like' interaction.  Yet it is crucial to 
allow
that active agent to shut it self down at the end of the interaction.
      
l8r,
v

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