Program Ideas

[mcqueen]

Does anyone have pretty advanced program ideas?

[anonymous23323124]

How about a chatbot AI? That can be fun. It's easy to get started using std::string and std::map.

However, it can really be as complex/advanced as you like then since you can keep tweaking features to make it more conversational and believable.

[ultifinitus]

Hmm good idea Xander! Why not use my networking framework so I can use you as a bishop in my chess game? =)

[kbw]

That's a pretty good idea. You could probably sell it on as a Persona Management thing.

[chrisname]

You could write the AI as a back-end program, and then write a set of front-ends, e.g one that re-directs standard input/output from/to IRC.

You might do it like this:
1. Connect to IRC server
2. Connect to a channel
3. Read input from IRC and pass to AI back-end (via pipes or something similar)
4. Take output from back-end and send over IRC
5. Repeat steps 3 & 4

[anonymous23323124]

For a general structure for my AI, I was thinking of this:
Inputs -> Input Translators (convert inputs into internal format) -> AI stuff -> Output Translators -> Outputs

However, I wasn't sure whether to have queues for input messages, or callback functions or what... I need to do some planning and I have far too many upcoming exams to plan it properly now :(

[chrisname]

I would use callbacks, a queue could get to using too much memory.