Chatterbots include the
Original
Eliza psychotherapist
and several variations including
Dr. Webowitz, WWW Quack Psychiatwist,
Dirty Eliza, the X Rated Psychotherapist, or for a more spiritual,
soothing approach, Ask Jesus at http://www.crucify.com/.
Or, for the mathematically inclined, direct some questions to Julie
of Phoenix Quest fame. Of, if you miss John
Lennon try chatting with his online impersonator. Perhaps
the best of the chatterbot genre is ALICE
the Chat Robot - highly recommended.
For additional choices, Yahoo maintain an up-to-date list. Other AI sites worth visiting include:
A site which automatically creates a "post-modernist" essay, replete with bloated jargon and incomprehensible sentence structure, every time someone logs onto it. This was described in the NY Times on Feb 27, story also available on this site in case the Times drops it.
Some prize-winning AI programs
can be found at:
http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~hutch/hal/
in Perth, Western Australia.
Many interesting games and simulations are available at Serendip in Bryn Mawr. A theoretically interesting one is the "Game of Life."
Ben says the following link
leads to dozens of cool applets for neural nets, artificial life,
genetic algorithms, etc. This
is a more advanced site, with code which can be used by those writing their
own AI programs: http://www.aist.go.jp/NIBH/~b0616/Lab/Links.html
A large number of Artificial
Intelligence sites can be found on Yahoo's
page of Web-Based AI Sites.
Yahoo also offers a good selection
of sites
with information and conversation about AI.