I’ve actually only been working on this for about a week. The initial few days were designed to create an FCF, which was used to generate the “brains” behind Bruco, after which, I just did minor tweaking. The approach is similar to one often taken with AI: rather than programming every possible response, you program the ability to interact and analyze those interactions. It can take longer to ultimately “learn” everything, but it creates limitless potential. Unfortunately, it will probably take some time before Bruco is able to understand the subtle nuances of the English language (for instance, right now “cool,” “awesome,” and “nice” are exact synonyms as are “ugly,” “broken,” “painful,” and “myspace”). I expect that Bruco will eventually learn the differences and understand scale (e.g., “ugly” is not as bad as “myspace”).

I’m not sure why the video cut off for you. I downloaded it on my laptop (I recorded it on my desktop) and it played fine on there. It may be another case of “Dreamhost quality.” Of course I can’t guarantee that it’s not a problem with one of the dozen programs it took to create the screencast. None of them used LOGIC either.