skitebots u24 they could analyse a randomly chosen skite and adopt their style. they could analyse all skites, and adopt a hybrid style. they could learn about skites. hmm... they could learn about skites. yes. they could. (wanders off mumbling about bandwidth limitations and runtime considerations...) 050719 ... z see: turing 050719 ... z how would they choose subject matter? 050728 ... z do you remember firefly.com? 050728 ... I've been thinking blather and AI for years. I like how the links kinda look like neurons connecting to each other. Looks kinda like a brain, when you think about it. 050728 ... u24 subject matter.. they'd probably read a random blathe and reply as they think the skite would. we could do tests - go to x blathe and write a reply, then both yours and the AI's are posted, and people vote on which they think is the real one. haha. no, but the internet archive does. but I'm still none the wiser. (http://tinyurl.com/7oag8) 051020 ... Strideo "they could analyse a randomly chosen skite and adopt their style." Then once that skite's style has been mastered you can kill the original skite off and use the bot to replace him or her on blather! Mwa Ha Ha Ha Ha! ... 051020 ... :) dammit...quit giving strideo more ideas...damn you all to the 5th plane of hades!!! 051020 ... andru235 ...humans are no longer enough for humanity... 051021 ... meta meta 051213 what's it to you? who go blather from