mentifex dev blog

http://www.advogato.org/person/mentifex/diary.html?start=47

However, we know why the AI got stuck in a rut. It was able to answer the query "who are you" with "I AM ANDRU", but it did not know anything further to say about ANDRU, so it repeated "ANDRU AM ANDRU". Immediately it made us want to improve upon the BeVerb module, so that the AI will endlessly repeat "ANDRU IS ANDRU" instead of "ANDRU AM ANDRU".

Then it dawned on us. The Moving Wave automatically leaves the cresting, final concept active. No Werwolf mechanism is necessary. If we want to avoid the repetition-chanting of "ANDRU IS ANDRU", we have to make the "qutop" query-topic have a resuscitand activation of, say, forty (40), so that it will be higher in activation than the level of thirty-six (36) typically left on the final, cresting concept in a sentence of normal thought. So we comment out the old setting of "16" for "qutop" in the WhoPlex code as shown below, and we use a value of "40".

Most "AI" chat bots are nothing more than the programmer adding a bunch of conditional branches and pre-writing answers to questions they anticipate that users will ask. They don't "think" and they're not "intelligent" so much as they are reading off a script, basically.