I was bored last month. I decided that it would be fun to hack up an AI
bot to sit on the
#haskell IRC channel.
I wanted this bot to be a conversation bot, so I would need some sort of AI engine. I wanted it to be a learning bot, so it could learn from what people have said before. I searched around, and it seems there aren't many good learning AI engines out there for Linux. I eventually settled on
MegaHAL.
I then obtained the logs for the conversation in #haskell over the past year, and used it to train the bot.
The result was sometimes hilarous, and often riddled with typos and nonsensical (considering the source, many would say that would be expected).
I started a page of
MegaMonad quotes with some of the funnier exchanges.
But here's the best part: there was a person on the channel that
didn't realize that MegaMonad was a bot! Perhaps we just passed the
Turing Test accidentally...
bicycling, 
Comments
Thu, 09.10.2008 15:39
Well said John! I read your bl og from Planet Haskell, but as a young voter I agree with yo u 100%. Thanks for the e [...]
Sun, 05.10.2008 20:40
There is no denying that there have been plenty of people th at have killed in the name of Christianity. That does [...]
Sun, 05.10.2008 18:34
I think the formula you wanted is git format-patch $(git rev-list HEAD | tail -1)
Sun, 05.10.2008 14:23
I know it sounds nice to you, but, Christianity means an opp ressive, theocratic, brutal, b loody regime to many of [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 23:47
I agree that there must be sen sible limits on government exp enditure, for sure. Healthc are is one of those wher [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 23:43
Not at all, and I completely a gree with you. But I wanted to stress that part, because not everyone does.
Sat, 04.10.2008 23:41
Hi Cliff, I agree with you that the "they take jobs Ameri cans won't" argument doesn't m ake sense. I also agree [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 17:26
I always worry when people cla im their ethics are founded on religious tenets, since most religions have a lot of [...]