[MODULE] Megahal

GodOfSuicide · Post by **GodOfSuicide** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 4:49 pm

Hi, once again the question is about megahal.

I got megahal2.2 (http://www.clancdg.com/barkerjr/irc/egg ... 2.2.tar.gz) and i installed it succesfull.

But the only problem : it doesn't start to talk in any way. Maybe it works like infoegg who collects lots of infos until he starts, but i'm not sure.

In the .c / .h file i haven't seen anything to edit, and now i dont have any idea what to do.

if anyone got this to work plz tell me how you did it.

mfg GoS

CCHiron · Post by **CCHiron** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 4:10 am

i don't remember if the source downlaod had brain files included in the tar. here is a place to down load brain files to give it personality:)

http://www.megahal.net/download/

tainted · Post by **tainted** » Sun Jul 21, 2002 11:16 pm

Has anyone gotten this mod to work correctly? My log appears empty and I can not get it to talk at all. It should create its own brain file from what the README.* says, but it doesn't seem to be working..

CCHiron · Post by **CCHiron** » Sun Jul 21, 2002 11:26 pm

yup got it running great in two bots and both being wineggs to boot.

are you talkng to it correctly ie.
<user> botname: hello

have to have the ":" or he won't talk

real dumb question did you

loadmodule megahal

in your config file???

having premade brains saves a lotta work in training it from scratch

tainted · Post by **tainted** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 4:12 am

Yeah I loaded it, but could not for the life of me figure out how to talk to it. Thanks

tainted · Post by **tainted** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 5:35 am

It really needs to have a built in bold/other attributed text stripper.

voodookid · Post by **voodookid** » Tue Aug 27, 2002 4:50 am

well ... I have the same problem
I edited the eggdrop.conf and addes the line loadmodule megahal
the eggdrop loaded succesfuly loaded all the modules but the dimenssions of the .brn and .dic remains the same ..I mean their are empty .... I chmod 555 those files ... but nothing
iI allso get these message in the logs :
Writing user file ...
Writing brain file ...
Writing channel file ...
so it seems that the bot is working properly ... but still SO QUIET :

maybe we can bring up a solution ! I now I wll dig more !

tainted · Post by **tainted** » Tue Aug 27, 2002 5:50 am

Type this in the chan (make sure nick complete is NOT triggered)

<botnick>, Who are you?

voodookid · Post by **voodookid** » Tue Aug 27, 2002 6:30 am

this is vwry weird ....
still silence ...
i looked in the source file and everything looks OK .... what the hell ?

/me allmost angry

tainted · Post by **tainted** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 5:30 am

Check the size and time/date of the brain file. (ls -all ~/eggdrop/megahal.brn)

voodookid · Post by **voodookid** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 5:21 am

i manage to recompile the eggdrop and now it has both .brn and .dic files corect but there is still silence... maybe I will figure thet out some day ... until then I found another AI ircbot ... benzo (search on freshmeat.net for it) and it's quite impressive (it's written in python).

regards & /me back to study

tainted · Post by **tainted** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 3:52 pm

MegaHAL has a few nasty bugs which cause cpu load to skyrocket to 99%. If your eggy hangs and you have this module enabled, I would strongly suggest disabling it until a new version is made.

a43 · Post by **a43** » Sat Oct 12, 2002 2:34 pm

I'm having the same problem. My bot won't talk, at all.
If I add the two chanmodes mentioned in the README (+megahal and +learnall) it won't even start. I've tried substituting the brain and dicitonary files for the ones I used in another bot that ran an earlier version of the module, and that worked perfectly, but still: silence.

If anyone gets it to work I'd be very grateful if you'd post a solution.

EDIT: After checking the brain and dictionary files (these are the old files that used to work) I noticed they look like this:
MegaHALv8^E^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^B^@^@^@^G<ERROR>^E<FIN>
(the brain file)
and
<ERROR>
<FIN>
(the dictionary file)

I went back to check my backups to make sure that they didn't look like that, and they seemed fine, so it appears that when the bot is writing it's brain file (on a .rehash for example) something goes wrong.

EDIT AGAIN: No, I'm retarded, I had [censored] up the permissions for the .brn and .dic files. It writes to them correctly now, but it's still silent

tainted · Post by **tainted** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 7:39 am

It is very very buggy, and honestly the ai it develops isnt ai at all, more just bits and pieces of random things it learns. It was amusing for a little while, until I figured out that it wasnt going to get 'smarter' and was just crashing the bot.

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 8:52 am

I tried megahal over a year back, when it was created as a pet project (i beleive).

It wasn't very good then. I had managed to teach it till the bitter end, after 2 hours. No matter what I said to it, it refused to creat anything new in it's replies or questions.

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[MODULE] Megahal

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