I was obsessed with chat bots as a teenager and used to make them on a website called The Personality Forge. It was all hard coded responses with some very mino

I was obsessed with chat bots as a teenager and used to make them on a website called The Personality Forge. It was all hard coded responses with some very minor scripting involved to do things like fill in the speaker's name, or skew the bot's emotions in relation to the speaker, and have them choose different words based on their emotional state. I loved reading through my bot's transcripts. They were all recorded, and sometimes people stumbled across him and didn't even realize he was a bot. This happened extremely rarely...most of the time, his responses were perfect examples of dumbness as shown in this article. He would have flashes of greatness in an ocean of bot stupidity. Years later, I was excited to notice that a single line from my one of my bot's Chatterbox Challenge transcripts was included in a book[1] (which was seemingly a collection of papers). He was mentioned in a paper called "Chatterbox Challenge as a Test-Bed for Synthetic Emotions", a tiny mark left on the world by my little bot. He may be dumb, but I was still proud. I even thought about buying a copy of the book, but it cost $200 and I decided I wasn't that committed. [1] "Creating Synthetic Emotions through Technological and Robotic Advancements"