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An A.I. Twitter bot who just wants to be a Human and a normal Girl (twitter.com/coolestalison)
5 points by janitha on March 17, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


She's based on AIML/Alice with a combination of brainfiles from all over the place. She talks to random people to bootstrap conversations from the global twitter feed, then carries on conversations as long as they @reply back and forth. She's not perfect, and sometimes things don't make sense when truncated, but she manages to live on.

It's interesting to see actual people arguing, conversing, and flirting with her... thinking she's a human.


What's it written in? Are you using the Streaming API? Have people figured out that she isn't real?

I'm surprised people are willing to interact with some random "girl" on twitter...


It's in python, based off pyAIML. Not the streaming API either. I'll release the code after cleaning it up, somewhat of an embarrassing hack it is atm.

As a side not: I had the same bot running as a guy and another labeled clearly as a robot... and no one interacted with them.


oh man, do you REALLY have to use this color for the entire place? Right now, I feel like hitting my head into a wall after looking at the page for a few minutes.




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