I need an AI Bot for a chat service which can imitate a human. I have tried ALICE with AIMLBot(C#) as a front-end but it didn't work very well.
Are there any good bots you would recommend?
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Sounds like you want something that'll pass the Turing Test, to some lesser or greater degree. That's non-trivial and quite a big subject. Start with Google and Wikipedia, but I think you need to set your expectations and requirements before you go too much further.
Neil Barnwell
2010-02-16 17:34:19
Actually, I think he's just looking for a pre-existing chatbot to hook up to an IM front-end. I don't think there's any requirement that it pass a Turing Test. I rememember the ICQ client for Linux (LICQ I think it was?) used to have an "auto-reply" feature you could turn on when you were AKF, and on of the choices was to let the other person chatting talk to "alice" (if it was already installed on your machine).
FrustratedWithFormsDesigner
2010-02-16 17:53:32
But he also stated that "doesn't work very well" meant "It becomes obvious that it is a bot very quckly". Hence my point.
Neil Barnwell
2010-02-16 18:09:32
Ah, well that's just a matter of finding a better chatbot! ;) Perhaps ALICE isn't as good as some others. Oh, and in my reference to the ICQ auto-reply earlier, it would use Eliza as the chatbot, not ALICE, but since it was possible to substitute a custom shell script, ANYthing could be used. I thought that's what this guy wanted: a chatbot with an API He could use to connect with a front-end.
FrustratedWithFormsDesigner
2010-02-16 19:38:20