Literary MUD Gets Oscar Wilde Bot

gwailoh writes "The literary-orientated, text-based multiuser role-playing game TriadCity has implemented an automated character based on the personality - or at least the sayings - of legendary wit Oscar Wilde. 'Oscar' is an AIML-based chatterbot configured around an extensive database of Wilde's witticisms and epigrams. Unlike conventional chatterbots, Oscar doesn't attempt to engage in long-running conversations with meaningful state. Instead, he responds to inputs by choosing the most appropriate epigram in his database, making him a sort of walking repository of clever one-liners."

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Re:hmm.. Am I missing the cool part?

[gwailoh]

Hi:

I passed your opinion on to the Oscar bot, saying, "Oscar, I don't see what's new about you...", etc. The reply was:

"Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital."

I kinda liked that. :-)

(Re what's cool. I'm one of the developers of this RPG so I'm biased, but what I like a lot about this bot is the way it sometimes jumps into ongoing multi-player chats with Wildean witticisms or irony or opinionated epigrams like the one above. Naturally the AIML fails from time to time and the results are inappropriate. But often they're so dead-on that the human players stop and say, you know, "woah..." IMO that's a lot of fun.)