Getting Started with A.L.I.C.E.

Caleb Clark writes "This open source bot was so much fun I had to write a tutorial: Getting Started with the A.L.I.C.E. bot and Mac OSX. A beginning tutorial on using OSX to install, modify, and serve an award winning open source chat bot made with XML and Java. ALICE bot won the 2000 Loebner Prize (Turning Test) for most human bot. She's made in an XML language called Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) and uses Java to run. This is a great environment for newbies to work with basic A.I. by Variable Hacking existing XML code to make their own bot."