Discovering Chat Bots

What is a Chat Bot? Read about them here or here.

What is the Turing Test? Who was Turing?

How is the Turing Test related to artificial intelligence? Do you believe that passing the Turing Test is convincing evidence of artificial intelligence?

What is the Loebner Prize?
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

What does A.L.I.C.E. stand for?

You can talk to "Alice" here. Click on the animated Bot and you will go to a chat with her.

Human: You are pretty good!
ALICE: Thanks you are a nice person, unknown person.
Human: What is your URL?
ALICE: My URL is http://www.alicebot.org.
Human: Thanks!
ALICE: Don't mention it.

Many Chatbots are listed at chatbots.org

For what purposes are chatbots being used or planned for?

Try talking to ELIZA. What do you think about ELIZA? Tell me about your conversation. What was the purpose of ELIZA? Do you think the software is effective at it?

These bots are related to ELIZA. Try?

How is Jabberwocky different from other artificial intelligence chat-bots?

George, from jabberwacky, won the 2005 Loebner prize for the most human chat bot. You can talk to George…

I'm not like all the rest.
Are you OK?
I am fine, thanks :)).

Or talk to Joan…

You cannot talk to God on the internet, but you can chat with a chatbot called iGod.

Human: Baka yaro!
God: Do you have any idea what I am talking about?
Human: No
God: Me either :-).

The newest and best chatbot is Elbot. What did Elbot do in October 2008?

What is Artificial Solutions?

What is a "virsona"?

An educational chatbot is Abraham Lincoln!

Simon Laven has a great list of chatbots, well-organized by type, with a good, simple explanation of each.
http://www.simonlaven.com/
His site includes some non-English bots.

I like Egon, a chatbot for learning English. Egon is a pizza-loving dragon AI. 

The Personality Forge is a site where users design different personalities for their bots. Here is a list of some of their hits. Be careful! Some of these bots are dangerous!

There is another list of Chat-bots at botspot, and here are some more from Google Directory, and AI Dreams.

You may find some other Open-Source chat-bots listed here:

You can chat with humans on the web, too!