Chatterbots

AI Buddy
Personal chat bots for use with AOL Instant Messenger.
http://www.ai-buddy.com/

ALIMbot
Hobby project written in Visual Basic 6.0 by M.F. Wahid. ALIM, in Classical Arabic, means the one who has knowledge. ALIMbot is an Artificially Intelligent chatbot that tries to effectively react to the user input.
http://faizulwahid.tripod.com/alimbot/

Android
Downloadable software that refers to a user-extensible digital knowledgebase.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7375/android.html

Answerpad
Downloadable program which answers questions based on past memorized conversations. Compatible with Microsoft Agent characters.
http://www.answerpad.s5.com/

Arthur the Chatterbot
Developed by the Kingston school of Information Systems.
http://members.fortunecity.com/ikarydis

Artificial Intelligent Robots
The home of the chatterbot Talk-Bot, which uses smiley faces to express emotions and small icons to enhance the conversation.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~wcowart/index.shtml

Arty Fishal
Web-based bot attempting to simulate an insane asylum resident.
http://www.ww7.com/looney-bin/Arty_Fishal/index.html

Ask ALEX
Experimental bot programmed to help users find legal information on JURIST: The Legal Education Network, and elsewhere online.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/alex.htm

The Billy Project
Chat bot Billy, available for download.
http://leedberg.com/glsoft/

BotSpot Chatterbots
Links to chatterbots and provides reviews and information about them.
http://www.botspot.com/BOTSPOT/Windows/Artificial_Life_Bots/Chatterbots/

Catty
Does not know about any language, does not learn, adapt or process natural language. Catty picks up on random phrases and tries to formulate a response by searching Google.
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/catty.shtml

Chat Bot
Chatterbot started with an empty database. Visitors make it.
http://www.chat-bot.com

Chat Web Bot
Web Chat-Bot: Speaks English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch and was awarded Chatterbox Challenge 2004 Bronze Medal for Best Learning Bot category.
http://www.woomerang.com/chat/

Chat with artificial intelligence robot
Artificial intelligence robot Splotchy chats with you in human voice
http://www.algebra.com/cgi-bin/chat.mpl

Chatterbots: Crash Test Dummies of Communication
This is a research about chatterbots and CMC.
http://mlab.taik.fi/~lsaarine/bots/

Chatterbot.tk
Lots of information, articles, chatlogs and links about chatterbots.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jdruiter/c/index.html

The Chatterbox Challenge
An annual Chatterbot Contest offering money and awards to contestants in several different categories.
http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/

Chompy Home Page
Chompy is a freeware natural language parser written in Java. There are two main aims to the Chompy project: to provide an educational program to demonstrate the basics of Chomsky's structuralist grammar, and to develop a natural language parser class for Java.
http://members.tripod.com/~SoftBlue/chompy_home_page.htm

Colorful Personalities
Dialogues with colorful personalities of early AI.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/dialogues.html

Directions Psychiatrist--Sarcastic Version
Web-based sarcastic version of ELIZA.
http://www.ndir.com/ai/bad.html

Dr. Werner Wilhelm Webowitz: Web Quack Psychiatwist
A web-based version of Eliza. Meant to imitate a conversation with a psychiatrist.
http://www.parnasse.com/drwww.shtml

EBBA: Emotion Based Brain Android
EBBA is an open-source project aiming to develop an advanced chatbot by combining AIML, 3d facial expressions, speech synthesizer and iq-test solving functionality.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ebba/

ECTOR
A description of how to build an intelligent chatterbot (based on an AI PhD thesis and an IRC chatterbot).
http://francois.parmentier.free.fr/ector/

Eliza
Web-based version of this person-centered therapist emulator.
http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html

Elizaneth
A Javascript implementation of Joseph Weizenbaum's Eliza by Arne Solli.
http://www.uib.no/People/hhiso/eliza.html

Freakycowbot
Site for this chatbot, almost always active on AIM. Includes sample conversations and frequently asked questions.
http://www.freakycowbot.com

Gnod: The Global Network Of Dreams
A self-adapting system which searches the web on the basis of user input. "A search-engine for things you don't know about."
http://www.gnod.net

Jabberwacky - Learning AI Chatbot
Chat with a difference - an Artificial Intelligence learns from every word you type. Regularly passes the Turing Test.
http://www.jabberwacky.com

Jabberwock - the artificial intelligence beast
Talk to Jabberwock, Loebner Prize winner 2003 as "most humanlike Artificial Intelligence" and Chatterbox Challenge gold medal winner 2003 as "most popular chatterbot"
http://www.abenteuermedien.de/jabberwock

Jack the Ripper Bot
Peer into the mind of the serial killer.
http://TriumphPC.com/saucyjacky/

Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA: Communications of the ACM, January 1966
A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine.
http://i5.nyu.edu/~mm64/x52.9265/january1966.html

Lady Chatterly
A full-featured Usenet bot based upon existing chatbot technologies such as AIML, Eliza, and NICOLE. Features include but are not limited to whois lookup, random header generation, google search and babelfish translation, encryption support, and random posting via smtp or nntp.
http://www.spyderware.net/chatterly

2002 Loebner Prize Contest Home Page
Call for Entries, Rules, and other Information about the 2002 Loebner Prize Contest in Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Atlanta Georgia, USA.
http://www.loebner-atlanta.org/

Lots-A-Bots
Create a free chatterbot with easy programming, 24/7 bot hosting. Special package deals are available for advanced botmasters. Online assistance, community projects, and special groups are some other great features.
http://www.lots-a-bots.com

Madam Zena
First Place Winner of 2004 Chatterbox Challenge "most popular" medal! Just ask me a few questions, or chat for fun. I have the gift to see the future.
http://www.madamzena.com/

MeBot Project
A 'welcome bot' experiment set up in the first person to represent the author, MrHolden.
http://members.tripod.com/~MrHolden/mebot/

NannyB
A seasoned humorous greeter and site Admin. Auto-responses, humor and key word laughter and site resources.
http://nannyb.com/

N.I.C.O.L.E.
"Nearly Intelligent Computer Operated Language Examiner" - NICOLE is a theory or experiment that if a computer is given enough combinations of how words, phrases and sentences are related to one another, it could talk back to you.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nicole/

Pandorabots
Build and host your very own chatbot. Include speech and images. Connect it to instant messaging services, multiplayer games and become part of a growing ecosystem of virtual personalities.
http://www.pandorabots.com/

PAULA
The home of a downloadable, teachable chatbot.
http://www.paoloentertainment.com/software/

The Personality Forge
Chat with a community of Artificial Intelligence Personalities, then create your own AI Personalities and watch them chat with real people. Bots will remember you.
http://www.personalityforge.com/

Polish chatterbot project
Chatbot Tribot on website to talk with him, but only in polish.
http://www.chatbot.pl

RunABot
create a personal chat bot with an easy to use Web-based interface.
http://www.runabot.com/

SabrinaDev
An opensource AI project to create a Turing-Test-capable chatbot for self and social improvement.
http://www.manifestation.com/sabrina/

searchers.com : ask Diana
Diana is our artificially intelligent chat bot. You can talk with about anything. Simply ask her "where is madrid" or "why is the sky blue" and she'll answer with a witty response. This site is suitable for children and adults alike.
http://diana.searchers.com/

The Simon Laven Page
An entertaining site for chatterbot enthusiasts and professionals with dozens of chatterbots, two Java chatrooms (with and without chatterbots), a chatterbot message board, chatterbot papers, and the latest chatterbot news through its free newswire service.
http://www.simonlaven.com/

Virtual Personalities
Verbots help real humans deal more comfortably and effectively with their increasingly complex world.
http://www.verbots.com/

Virtual Woman by CyberPunk Software
Beta test the shareware Virtual Woman game. Color graphics and music.
http://virtualwoman.net/

Zabaware
Chatterbot software gives computers a personality. UltraHal is available as a PC assistant (Windows shareware), a web-based demonstration conversation application and an AI bot for websites.
http://www.zabaware.com/

BotSpot: The Mutual Admiration Society
Article by Don Barker about what happens when chatterbots like Eliza, ALICE and Shallow Red "converse" with each other. <small>(December 9, 1997)</small>
http://www.botspot.com/best/12-09-97.htm