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Literary MUD Gets Oscar Wilde Bot
gwailoh writes "The literary-orientated, text-based multiuser role-playing game
TriadCity has implemented an automated character based on the personality - or at least the sayings - of legendary wit Oscar Wilde. 'Oscar' is an
AIML-based
chatterbot configured around an extensive database of Wilde's witticisms and epigrams. Unlike conventional chatterbots, Oscar doesn't attempt to engage in long-running conversations with meaningful state. Instead, he responds to inputs by choosing the most appropriate epigram in his database, making him a sort of walking repository of clever one-liners."
Oscar Wilde is definitely one of the wittiest men ever to put a pen to paper. The one-liner response from the AIML format should work great. I'll be checking this out in the morning. Hope it doesn't cost any money.
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I don't see what's new about this.. I mean it's amusing that someone made interfaces for the bot like they did, but we've been doing this sort of thing in MUDs for the past... Well, I haven't been mudding regularly in 5 years, but even then I saw things that you could hold better conversations than with this thing.. Is there something that makes this bot better than looking at a webpage filled with quotes?
But they should remember that one should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
;-)
I would say we live in age when unnecessary things are our only necessities, but then I'd have to remind myself that a cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Ok I'll shut up now...
HAHAHA, and that's all she wrote!
One should remember that Oscar Wilde was one of the 'inventors' of the one-liner. As a literary device, they came along much later, during Wilde's era.
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"Oscar doesn't attempt to engage in long-running conversations with meaningful state. Instead, he responds to inputs by choosing the most appropriate epigram in his database, making him a sort of walking repository of clever one-liners."
You do realize that I've been posting to Slashdot for years now.
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Instead, he responds to inputs by choosing the most appropriate epigram in his database, making him a sort of walking repository of clever one-liners.
/usr/games/fortune with keyword weighting?
So it's basically
NO CARRIER
from the bots-gone-Wilde dept. =)
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
Looks like the Oscar bot is actually available to talk to via a chat interface as part of the TriadCity website here. You can now be impressed at his witticisms or just plain irked at him from the comfort of your web browser, yay.
Some info here
-- Oscar Wilde.
Insert Signature Here
You can find some plays and poems by Oscar Wilde here
Also, more funny quotes by Wilde here.
Each man kills the thing he loves (but only if he rolls high enough)
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much (except casting fireballs, that really pisses them off)
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane (especially the undead ones)
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself (especially if you are a NPC)
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious (and you REALLY need to find some charisma +1s, loser!)
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H a rather predictable plot device
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it (or make a saving roll)
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives (or it's a just cut scene to keep the plot moving)
and of course...
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars^H^H^H^H^H rather shoddy lens-flare effects
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
"...he responds to inputs by choosing the most appropriate epigram in his database, making him a sort of walking repository of clever one-liners."
So, a fairly accurate historical representation, then.
I'm waiting for the Algonquin Round Table bot, where a selection of literary notables will make caustic, cutting remarks when spoken to.
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Of course, Wilde never would have referred to anything as "literary-orientated". He would have used "literary-oriented".
Unlike conventional chatterbots, Oscar doesn't attempt to engage in long-running conversations with meaningful state.
Actually the fact that Oscar has no state makes it a rather conventional ALICE-style chatterbot. This is normal. The fact the Wilde had so many great one-liners means his work adapts well to the ALICE system.
What would be extraordinary is if the implemented just the opposite, a chatterbot with an rich internal state. This has yet to be done convincingly. There is nothing uncoventional about Oscar, it just is a brilliant choice of source material.
MUDs have been doing this for ages. Sure, it's nice someone bothered to pay homage to Mr. Wilde but technologically this is quite simple. There are a lot more exciting projects going on in the MUD world, even some quite advanced AI models. I'm working on a memory-based system which would enable an NPC to become an Oscar Wilde by 'thinking' about things and putting events together with some cohesion. See the Mudconnector for more info on MUDs.
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