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George: I've got rats in my tail pipe.

amberglow — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:58:32 -0800

Meet George -- 39, single, quirky sense of humour, looking for friends to chat with online. Last year, he won the Loebner Prize, to bots who can most successfully pass the Turing Test. More here from BBC. How long before we have our own Mefibots?

The Personality Forge

plep — Fri, 16 May 2003 04:29:22 -0800

The Personality Forge. Create an AI bot, and set it loose.

TNLNYC — Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:00:15 -0800

An interesting idea Create your own bot... Sounds like an interesting service. What do you think?

aaron — Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:06:22 -0800

InfoBots are coming. I believe we've touched on this before, but now it seems to be moving from concept to reality: Instant Messenger "buddies" that are actually bots. You send them an IM with a question, such as "Hey pal, what's the weather in Thunder Bay, Ontario?" And it IMs you back with the answer, almost instantaneously. No waiting for messy web sites to load, no funky searches to run. ActiveBuddy has been the most, um, active in developing the technology, but they've been working on it forever without anything to show to the public. Now, it's out there, somewhere. CNET is reporting today that an ActiveBuddy beta bot has been live for a few months; you can play with it right now if you know its name. (And if you do know its name, a tip would be appreciated. I've been jonesing for this for a good while.) A more public version is supposed to be out in a few weeks. Here buddy buddy buddy...