My Chatbot FAQ

The following is a listing of the questions I have answered on Yahoo! Answers about chatbots over the past year, as a result of building http://twitter.com/yanswersbot ... a Twitter bot performing a persistent search for bots and robots, basically alerting me to new questions. Click on the questions for more detail, as well as for other answers. Blame the slight redundancy on "frequently asked questions".... [Note that the questions themselves are messy, which is something that any question answering system must deal with.]

(24) "Are there anygood ACTIVE Msn chat bots?"

=> http://www.chatbots.org/developer/msn/

(23) "2 Computing questions about Chatbots and Turing test?"

1) One of the best places to start is the Wikipedia entry for "Chatterbot" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatterbot .. (At this point I consider "Chatterbot" to be a derogatory term for currently more sophisticated "chatbots"; certainly earlier examples didn't do much more than "chatter", but today chatbots are much more interactive and responsive..)

2) Today, the hot topic is #IBMWatson, see Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Watson .. There is a good article about #IBMWatson , "Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project", AI Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 3. (2010), by D. Ferrucci, E. Brown, J. Chu-Carroll, et al. You can find Stephen Baker at http://twitter.com/SBFinalJeopardy , author of the upcoming "updateable e-book" about #IBMWatson , "Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything" http://tinyurl.com/2vmsvvu ..

(22) "Help me find a story about a chat bot?"

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boten_Anna

This is not the story you are looking for, but something similar ..

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_and_the_Real_Girl

This is also not the story you are looking for, but something related ..

(21) "how do i make a chat bot?"

It appears that Mibbit does both IRC and XMPP.. There are many IRC and XMPP chatbots available.. Just try googling "IRC chat-bot" or "XMPP chat-bot"..

Source(s): http://www.imified.com/

(20) "Can anyone give me any GOOD information on how to make an advanced chatbot?"

Follow my Twitter stream at http://twitter.com/mendicott for new chatbot tools ..

Source(s): http://www.scribd.com/search?q=chatbot

(19) "Does Anyone know ov a Free Safe and blank chatterbot I can download?"

Try http://www.verbots.com ..

(18) "How do you think cleverbot works?"

Cleverbot uses string metrics, a technique called "string similarity"..

Cleverbot creator, Rollo Carpenter, discusses his work in a series of videos entitled "Learning Creating Phrasing" => http://tinyurl.com/28zvgeb ..

Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_metrics .. http://science.discovery.com/videos/popscis-future-of-cleverbot.html

(17) "i want to create a chat bot.?"

You will need to clarify this more.

Currently, chatbots are text-in/text-out.

Various text-to-speech (TTS) technologies allow the text to be read out loud.

Windows7 speech tools allow you to input speech via automatic speech recognition (ASR).

(16) "What is the most intelligent chatterbot available for free online?"

Try http://www.cleverbot.com ..

[ Cleverbot is a more fuzzy variant of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwacky with deeper context .. ]

[ SmarterChild is dead .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmarterChild ]

(15) "how do chatbots know what to say?"

The Wikipedia "Chatterbot" article is probably the best pace to start..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatterbot

Most basically, chatbots use various forms of "pattern matching"..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching

(14) "Any Chat Bots you know for messenger?"

Try:

List of "Working MSN Chatbots" http://tinyurl.com/y3s6hmz

List of "MSN Chat Bots" http://msnemotions.org/msn-chat-bots.html

Chatbots On MSN Messenger, IM And Windows Live Messenger http://chatbots.org/platform/livemessenger/

(13) "WHY DON'T CHAT BOTS WORK ANYMORE?"

Try:

List of "Working MSN Chatbots" http://tinyurl.com/y3s6hmz

List of "MSN Chat Bots" http://msnemotions.org/msn-chat-bots.html

Chatbots On MSN Messenger, IM And Windows Live Messenger http://chatbots.org/platform/livemessenger/

(12) "ANY CHAT BOTS LIKE SMARTERCHILD THAT WORK???"

YouTube is a good place to find new chatbots http://youtube.com/results?search_query=chat-bot

(11) "Cleverbot and other AI systems?"

Probably the best place to start is http://chatbots.org ..

(10) "is there a chat bot like elbot or A.L.I.C.E that can generate messages in English that anyone can access?"

You can make your own ALICEbot with http://www.pandorabots.com/ ..

Conversive VerbotsOnline is a good alternative at http://www.verbotsonline.com/ ..

Personality Forge seems to be popular http://www.personalityforge.com/ ..

You could also try MyCyberTwin http://www.mycybertwin.com/ ..

(9) "SmarterChild or a different chat bot?"

You can read about the demise of SmarterChild at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmarterChild ..

Skype does not have many chatbots because its API is not open to the XMPP/Jabber standard..

Apple iChat is compatible with XMPP/Jabber, so should be able to access most common IM chatbots, for details see http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber/ ..

(8) "What are some up to date chat bots for MSN Live Messenger?"

Try this relatively recent list of 124 MSN chatbots at http://www.chatbots.org/platform/livemessenger (If you find dead ones in that list, please leave comments there to that effect ..)

(7) "How i can promote a msn chat bot?"

Simply tweet about it on Twitter .. or better .. make it talk to Twitter with something like http://www.tweet.im or http://www.imified.com .. and then tweet about that ..

Source(s): http://www.squidoo.com/twuring

(6) "whats this chat system called?"

http://www.cleverbot.com/

(5) "what is the website for chatterbot?"

There are a number of "chatterbot" directories online, try:

http://www.aidreams.co.uk/chatterbotcollection/

or

http://www.chatbots.org/

Popular "chatterbots" you can try are:

http://www.cleverbot.com/

or

http://www.alicebot.org/igod/

(4) "why was the spleak chat bot deleted?"

There used to be an informative article about the history of Spleak on Wikipedia, but it seems to have become degraded..

Basically, the company went out of business..

See this link to the Webarchive copy of the last Spleak blog entry, January 2008 => http://tinyurl.com/nqlch4

(3) "how to create twitter bot?"

Try http://www.botomatic.com/ or http://www.tweetbots.com/ ..

There are many PHP Twitter bots available ..

Don't spam! :-(

(2) "where can i get free chatbots from for my chatroom?"

It depends on what kind of "chatroom" you have; but, the "8pla.net forum bot AI (Artificial Intelligence)" at http://www.8pla.net/ is a good place to start.

(1) "Did exist chat bot which can be download on computer?"

Try downloading the new Verbot 5 application from =>; http://www.verbots.com/ .