chat bots and other simulacra

ALICE the talking computer program → http://www.alicebot.org/ → hooking up CyC (or OpenCyc) to eliza, and other mishaps → http://opencyc.org → MegaHAL → http://www.megahal.net/ which begat Salvatore → http://www.amristar.com.au/~hutch/salvatore/ → JFRED → http://famous.aspect.to/use/jfred/ which begat DJINN → http://famous.aspect.to/use/djinn/docs/

related: Artificial Intelligence