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The real challenge in making a chatbot is writing one that comes up with original stuff, this one just basically regurgitated whatever it was told on an earlier occasion.

Over on the chatbot arena, there is The Loebner Prize[2], also interesting, but in general the systems are over learned.

One of the best attempts was a really nasty little trick, basically a human-backed chatbot.

A 14-year old isn't that unlikely to be able to program a chatbot, right?

Also use a chatbot script to randomly reply to the user's comments.

Am doing a project on an interactive chatbot-like pages in javascript.

A guy made a IRC chatbot and that talks too.

I just spent an entire week working on a chatbot in Rust, and I found the steep learning curve to be very challenging.

Edit: just realised you're the author, so I want to reiterate: this is a lovely designed app and making your own chatbot is rad.

I realize this is standard journalist exaggeration, so I'll ask: is there any technical info on Xiaoice that explains how this chatbot stands out from the rest?

What Slack does very well is giving a good enough experience for programmers to do shop-talk, and ample opportunities for chatbot yak-shaves, it's also perfectly well usable for non technical people.

I do not think we will get a chatbot that can hold a conversation on any conceivable topic at a level that you would confuse for a human.

If there is a piece of news here, it's not about Xiaoice but about people feeling so lonely they can pretend a chatbot is their "friend".

Would "a chatbot with primitive AI capabilities" seem like a reasonable compromise definition?

I saw a modern version of the "human-backed chatbot" on reddit last week, and it fooled quite a number of people.

Honestly, I would say "chatbot" is a class of primitive AI - I'd also class Eliza as an (extremely) primitive AI.