Classic chatterbots

• Dr. Sbaitso
  Dr. Sbaitso
  Dr. Sbaitso was an artificial intelligence program for MS DOS-based personal computer.-History:Dr. Sbaitso was distributed with various sound cards published by Creative Labs in the early 1990s.The program would "converse" with the user as if it were a psychologist, though most of its responses...
  
  
• ELIZA
  ELIZA
  ELIZA is a computer program and an early example of primitive natural language processing. ELIZA operated by processing users' responses to scripts, the most famous of which was DOCTOR, a simulation of a Rogerian psychotherapist. Using almost no information about human thought or emotion, DOCTOR...
  
  
• PARRY
  PARRY
  PARRY is, besides ELIZA, the other famous early chatterbot.-History:PARRY was written in 1972 by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby, then at Stanford University. While ELIZA was a tongue-in-cheek simulation of a Rogerian therapist, PARRY attempted to simulate a paranoid schizophrenic...
  
  
• Racter
  Racter
  Racter was an artificial intelligence computer program that generated English language prose at random.-History:The name of the program is short for raconteur. The sophistication claimed for the program was likely exaggerated, as could be seen by investigation of the template system of text...
  
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• Mark V Shaney
  Mark V Shaney
  Mark V Shaney is a fake Usenet user whose postings were generated by using Markov chain techniques. The name is a play on the words "Markov chain". Many readers were fooled into thinking that the quirky, sometimes uncannily topical posts were written by a real person.-History:Bruce Ellis did the...
  
  

General chatterbots

• Albert One
  Albert one
  Albert One is an AI chatterbot bot created by Robby Garner and designed to mimic the way humans make conversations using a multi-faceted approach in natural language programming.-History:...
  
   - 1998 and 1999 Loebner
  Loebner prize
  The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition is that of a standard Turing test. In each round, a human judge simultaneously holds textual conversations...
  
   winner, by Robby Garner
  Robby Garner
  Robby Garner is a natural language programmer and software developer. He won the 1998 and 1999 Loebner Prize Contests with the program called Albert One. He is listed in the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records as having written the "most human" computer program.-Life:A native of Cedartown,...
  
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• A.L.I.C.E.
  Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity
  A.L.I.C.E. , also referred to as Alicebot, or simply Alice, is a natural language processing chatterbot—a program that engages in a conversation with a human by applying some heuristical pattern matching rules to the human's input, and in its online form it also relies on a hidden third person...
  
   - 2001, 2002, and 2004 Loebner Prize
  Loebner prize
  The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition is that of a standard Turing test. In each round, a human judge simultaneously holds textual conversations...
  
   winner developed by Richard Wallace
  Richard Wallace (scientist)
  Richard Wallace is the author of AIML and Botmaster of ALICE . Dr. Wallace's work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, CNN, ZDTV and in numerous foreign language publications across Asia, Latin America and Europe.Richard Wallace was born in Portland, Maine in 1960. He earned his Ph.D...
  
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• Charlix
• Elbot
  Elbot
  Elbot is a chatterbot created by Fred Roberts.At the 18th Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence, held on the weekend of 11–12 October 2008, Elbot convinced three of the 12 human interrogators he was indistinguishable from human, beating the other contestants and taking the Bronze Prize.If Elbot...
  
   - 2008 Loebner Prize
  Loebner prize
  The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition is that of a standard Turing test. In each round, a human judge simultaneously holds textual conversations...
  
   winner, by Fred Roberts
  Fred Roberts
  Frederick Clark Roberts is a retired American basketball player who played power forward in the National Basketball Association for 13 seasons, a career spanning from 1983 to 1997, becoming one of the more successful journeymen to play in the league...
  
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• Fred
  Fred Chatterbot
  -History:The name Fred was initially suggested by Karen Lindsey, and then Robby jokingly came up with an acronym, "Functional Response Emulation Device." Fred has also been implemented as a Java application by Paco Nathan called ....
  
   - an early chatterbot by Robby Garner
  Robby Garner
  Robby Garner is a natural language programmer and software developer. He won the 1998 and 1999 Loebner Prize Contests with the program called Albert One. He is listed in the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records as having written the "most human" computer program.-Life:A native of Cedartown,...
  
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• Spookitalk - A chatterbot used for NPCs
  Non-player character
  A non-player character , sometimes known as a non-person character or non-playable character, in a game is any fictional character not controlled by a player. In electronic games, this usually means a character controlled by the computer through artificial intelligence...
  
   in Douglas Adams
  Douglas Adams
  Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
  
  ' Starship Titanic video game.
• Jabberwacky
  Jabberwacky
  Jabberwacky is a chatterbot created by British programmer Rollo Carpenter. Its stated aim is to "simulate natural human chat in an interesting, entertaining and humorous manner"...
  
  
• Jeeney AI
  Jeeney AI
  Jeeney AI is an artificially intelligent chatterbot designed to learn from fluent English interaction. This learning ability enables a smooth flowing evolution over time. Jeeney is only 4 years old and already one of the most advanced natural language systems in the world. Don't believe me? Talk to...
  
  
• MegaHAL
  MegaHAL
  MegaHAL is a computer conversation simulator, or "chatterbot", created by Jason Hutchens.-Background:MegaHAL was and made its debut in the 1998 Loebner Prize Contest. Like many chatterbots, the intent is for MegaHAL to appear as a human fluent in a natural language...
  
  
• Verbot
  Verbot
  The Verbot is a popular chatterbot program and Artificial Intelligence Software Development Kit for the Windows platform and for the web.- Early Beginning :Virtual Personalities, Inc. traces its technology back to Dr...
  
  
• Cleverbot
  Cleverbot
  Cleverbot is a web application that uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to hold conversations with humans. It was created in 1988 by AI scientist Rollo Carpenter, who also created Jabberwacky, a similar web application. In the first decade of its existence, Cleverbot held several thousand...
  
   (winner of the 2010 Mechanical Intelligence Competition)
• KAR Intelligent Computer - The new Continental Edison's CEPC 230 KAR include this artificial intelligence software.
• HAL
  HAL
  -Companies and organisations:* HAL Computer Systems, a defunct computer manufacturer* HAL Laboratory, a Japanese video game developer* Halliburton, by NYSE ticker symbol* Hamburg America Line, a shipping company* Hawaiian Airlines...
  
  

IM chatterbots

• GooglyMinotaur
  GooglyMinotaur
  GooglyMinotaur was an instant messaging bot on the AOL Instant Messenger network. Developed by ActiveBuddy under contract by Capitol Records, GooglyMinotaur provided Radiohead-related information, and was released simultaneously with the band's fifth studio album, Amnesiac in June 2001...
  
  , specializing in Radiohead
  Radiohead
  Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...
  
  , the first bot released by ActiveBuddy (June 2001-March 2002)
• SmarterChild
  SmarterChild
  SmarterChild was a chatterbot available on AOL Instant Messenger and Windows Live Messenger networks.-History:SmarterChild was an interactive agent or bot developed by ActiveBuddy. It was distributed across instant messaging and SMS networks...
  
  , developed by ActiveBuddy and released in June 2001
• Infobot
  Infobot
  Infobot is a Perl IRC bot, first written in 1995 by Kevin Lenzo. The bot's main goal was to remember URLs and associate them with a descriptive name, so whenever someone needed a specific URL they could ask the bot...
  
  , an assistant on IRC
  Internet Relay Chat
  Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file...
  
   channels such as #perl, primarily to help out with answering Frequently Asked Questions (June 1995-today)

External links

• Chatbots.org International chatterbots directory
• The Chatterbot Collection A large index of chatterbots, articles, resources, media and other related material