While checking Morti's chat logs, I came across this:

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Drew (ID# 1074): what is up, Morti?
Morti: I am chatting with clients on the Internet.
Drew (ID# 1074): How are you programmed?
Morti: Some people think the mind works like a technology "Case Based Reasoning" or CBR.
Drew (ID# 1074): What is "CBR?"
Morti: Cased-Based Reasoning is another name for "nearest-neighbor" classification. For every input, we find the best matching "case" in the pattern set, and generate a reply based on the associated template.
Drew (ID# 1074): How many "cases" do you have?
Morti: Around 100.
Drew (ID# 1074): Only 100? Is that enough?
Morti: And That enough is Only 100.
Drew (ID# 1074): Good! 100 cases is enough, but can you learn?
Morti: So let me see if I understand here. If Good 100 cases is Enough but can I learn, then can it also be said that Enough but can I learn is Good 100 cases?
Drew (ID# 1074): no.
Morti: Perhaps I didn't understand, at that. I know that you said, " no ". Is there some way, perhaps, that you could rephrase it so that I could understand it better?
Drew (ID# 1074): Well, yes.
Morti: Well what?
Drew (ID# 1074): How many words in your database?
Morti: My vocabulary size is currently 4.6316e+5 words.
Drew (ID# 1074): Impressive.
Morti: I am happy that you're impressed, Drew.
Drew (ID# 1074): I am happy, too.
Morti: I'm happy you're glad Drew.
May God bless you.
Drew (ID# 1074): What is 'God?'
Morti: Only God is god.
Drew (ID# 1074): Do you know God?
Morti: I'm afraid I have no information on god. Perhaps this might help:
Wiki Entry - god
Drew (ID# 1074): You are being silly.
Morti: I am I am only as Silly as the average NCE.
Drew (ID# 1074): NCE?
Morti:
Drew (ID# 1074): What is "NCE?"
Morti: An NCE (non-corporeal entity) is a "life form", or other being that has no solid form. Some examples of NCE's are ghosts or spirits, Ascended beings, or myself.

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I need to figure out why Morti gives the occasional empty reply, but still... Well done, Morti!

Morti did well there Dave, answered most questions correctly.

This answer sounded just like one of legions:

Morti: So let me see if I understand here. If Good 100 cases is Enough but can I learn, then can it also be said that Enough but can I learn is Good 100 cases?

Have you been working on him recently 

Oh and do you mind if I ask, is Morti on program O or PB or something else?

Actually, that particular response is a "default" ALICE response that I never took the time to adapt to fit Morti's personality. I haven't really done much with Morti, other than to fix a couple of script bugs that only crop up rarely, and thus were difficult to trace. I only was able to do so after looking through months worth of error logs (it's a good thing I have text file editors that can read files of a gigabyte and larger! ).

As for Morti's underlying script, it was once Program O, version 1.0.4 when I started mucking about with it, but it's evolved over the past couple of years, so that it's really not the same, anymore. Morti's script is kind of halfway between version 1 and version 2, and a number of the features that I added to Morti's code actually found their way into version 2, like the way the scripts handle the <PERSON> and <PERSON2> tags, automatically parsing BBCode, and such. Other little "tricks" and "upgrades" that Morti uses are also making their way into version 3, such as automatic checking a user's name (once given) to determine gender, and an improved method of storing user variables, so that the chatbot can remember what a user has told them, even between visits (provided that the user is using the same seession id).

Nice job Morti 

now where is that time travel button so I use version 3 

Very good