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...
Comments
Fri, 05.09.2008 02:07
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Fri, 05.09.2008 00:43
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Fri, 05.09.2008 00:00
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Thu, 04.09.2008 21:23
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Thu, 04.09.2008 10:14
At least he didn't say, "A kan garoo!" http://forest.compl ete.org/posts/395-Kangaroos.ht ml
Wed, 03.09.2008 13:24
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Wed, 03.09.2008 12:20
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Wed, 03.09.2008 11:31
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