The Atomic Playboy and the Radiation Romeo

The button below will open a new browser window displaying the Flash interface for Atomic and Romeo (Version 16 with Preloader). You will find a page of introductory text, some instructions and then the interface where you can suggest a topic for conversation.





This version 16 uses the landscape layout, updates the heckler and end-of-conversation functions with an audio sign-off. All the features from previous versions remain - scroll bar control,custId variable allows me to better log and track conversations.


The chat-bots are hosted on the Pandorabots server under the Shared Service subscription. Please note, the terms of the Updated Policy Guidelines for Free Community Server state that the “Use of automated scripts to make your pandorabot talk to itself or another bot or script” is proscribed (Pandorabots 2011). This project is being developed with the agreement of the Pandorabots Inc management and we would like to acknowledge their support. ( Pandorabots )



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After you have had a play with Atomic and Romeo please use this link to leave a comment.
Maybe you could suggest a topic of conversation or a layout suggestion.
All suggestions gratefully received.




Tuesday, May 31, 2011

This could be a real problem...

Last weekend I noticed the following update on the Pandorabots site:

[May 23, 2011]

Updated Policy Guidelines for Free Community Server

1. Resource usage

Pandorabots provides a (free) Community Server at www.pandorabots.com. This server is intended for botmasters to experiment with new AIML bots that use limited resources. The Community Server is home to more than 200,000 bots created by more than 150,000 botmasters. Pandorabots has served more than 1.2 billion interactions. Please remember you are sharing resources with all these pandorabots and their botmasters.

If the Community Server resource limitations are inadequate, please contact Pandorabots at info@pandorabots.com to learn about our other alternatives.

In any event Pandorabots reserves the right to remove, modify or disable a pandorabot on the Community Server when we deem that the pandorabot misuses the Community Server resources. The types of issues that may lead to intervention by Pandorabots include (but are not limited to) to these circumstances:
  • Use of automated scripts to make your pandorabot talk to itself or another bot or script...

As the title line says - this could be a real problem. The Pandorabots site offered the most elegant solution for my project. Through it I could train and deploy the bots and then control their interaction with an independent Flash/Actionscript interface. If I lose the ability to use Pandorabots it would be like, in old fashioned theatre speak, losing my two lead actors, the rehearsal space and the theatre!

I've sent the people at info@pandorabots.com an email. Hopefully the reply will suggest a solution that works for all of us.

I'll keep you posted.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Version 15 - that was fast

The attached version - upgraded from yesterday - now concludes with a generic set of lines. These are just simply throw away lines to end the conversation after a fixed number of interchanges.

Detayle:That's enough out of us!

Trickster:That's enough out of you then!

Detayle:Enough already!

You can clear all the fields and all the text by clicking the 'Clear' button.

Most of the dialog is based on the standard Alice set. However, a few AIML elements have been changed - those relating to 'mother', 'science fiction' and 'Star Trek'.

Have a play and let me know what you think.

This is a link will open a new browser window displaying the Flash .swf interface of Version 15

The bots are hosted on the Pandorabots site ( Pandorabots )

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Version 14 - some progress

The interface, except for window dressing issues, is largely behaving as it should. My supervisor noticed that in my earlier example the text from the bots loaded up the screen rather than down. Surely this is a simple fix??? Indeed, in the end, it was simple. However, it took some five versions to get it to behave properly. It now works and the 'break-though' was such an inconsequential fix (literally rearranging the order in a concatenated string of text - even that makes it sound harder than it was). I suppose that's just the way it goes - iterative and recursive attempts - successive approximations.

You can clear all the fields and all the text by clicking the 'Clear' button.

Most of the dialog is based on the standard Alice set. However, a few AIML elements have been changed - those relating to 'mother', 'science fiction' and 'Star Trek'.

Have a play and let me know what you think.

This is a link will open a new browser window displaying the Flash .swf interface of Version 14