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Literary MUD Gets Oscar Wilde Bot

Posted by simoniker on from the queen-victoria-quite-amused dept.

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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  1. Cool by Stargoat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oscar Wilde is definitely one of the wittiest men ever to put a pen to paper. The one-liner response from the AIML format should work great. I'll be checking this out in the morning. Hope it doesn't cost any money.

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  2. hmm.. Am I missing the cool part? by AceM2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't see what's new about this.. I mean it's amusing that someone made interfaces for the bot like they did, but we've been doing this sort of thing in MUDs for the past... Well, I haven't been mudding regularly in 5 years, but even then I saw things that you could hold better conversations than with this thing.. Is there something that makes this bot better than looking at a webpage filled with quotes?