User: ogre_san Date: 2007-03-15 21:50 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Chatbots. Gotta love 'em.

User: frankwu Date: 2007-03-15 22:06 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

OK. chatbot needs some work.

It: How are you on this fine afternoon?
Me: I'm just dandy. You?
It: What does it mean, dandy?
Me: Dandy, like candy. Candy for the soul.
It: Yeah. . Where is the soul?
Me: [signs off, bored].

I mean, who talks like that, "How are you this fine afternoon?" "What does it mean, dandy?" What native American (you know what I mean) English-speaker talks like that?

Perhaps Jabberwocky can teach me how NOT to write dialog.

User: the_flea_king Date: 2007-03-15 22:28 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Yeah. It just spewed gibberish at me too.

User: ripperbard Date: 2007-03-15 22:28 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

That was kinda creepy.

Me: Hello
It: Hi there.
Me: How goes?
It: Oh, you must be a poet.
Me: How'd you guess that?
It: It was not a guess.

Kinda scared to go back to the poem I was working on before I clicked the link....

User: the_flea_king Date: 2007-03-15 22:28 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

It's still watching you.

User: snippy Date: 2007-03-15 22:28 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

I crashed it when I told it my name.

User: the_flea_king Date: 2007-03-15 22:29 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Does your name do that to every chatbot program? If so, please share it with us.

User: snippy Date: 2007-03-15 23:01 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Not sure: I haven't chatted with any other chatbots. If you want to try it, my name is Kai.

User: suricattus Date: 2007-03-15 22:37 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: caffeine

I think I broke it. It started giving back totally random responses when I forced it to admit that it wasn't "supersane."

User: scarlettina Date: 2007-03-16 00:55 (UTC) Subject: I stopped while it was ahead... Keyword: Huh?

jabberwacky: How green is my valley?
Self: Very green indeed.
jabberwacky: What is green?
Self: Green is a color of the rainbow.
jabberwacky: Green's also the color of a lot of plants.
Self: It's not easy being green.
jabberwacky: It's not green being easy.

I don't know what it means, but it made me laff.