Pudding chatbot. Beta testing

Dear friends, my collegues and me are looking for people who are interested in artificial intelligence and able to talk to our english-speaking robot.

The point is that now we teach our robot Pudding to speak English.
If you have the desire, opportunity and time to help us in our task - we will be very happy!
If you also ask some children aged 5 to 12 years to participate in our testing - we will be immensely grateful to you!

All that we want to ask you about is to chat with our robot on any topics that you want.

No logins or passwords are required. You can start the conversation by following the link.

Chatbot collects questions for Vladimir Putin

Social network "Vkontakte", which this year will be to broadcast a straight line with Vladimir Putin, will give users the opportunity to ask questions of the President. To specify the data and formulate the question correctly and within the allowable volume helps the chat-bot.

The function "Ask a question" and the chat bot are available in the mobile and full versions of the website (including in the new design) and all the official clients.

Chatbots. News Digest 03/16

Tara the chatbot hires freelancers so you don’t have to

Tara is a Web-based chatbot designed to help small businesses get jobs done that require freelance contractors; maybe building an app or a website, designing a new logo, or even writing blog posts and marketing copy.
Source: thenextweb.com

"Don't write your own AI engine". Will Rayer (Uberbot's Developer)

Uberbot, a Chatterbot created by Will Rayer, placed 3rd in the 2014 Loebner Contest at Bletchley Park. I'd like to thank Will for this interview.

When have you realized to create your first chatbot? How did it happen?

Will Rayer: "I have been interested in AI for a long time but I always thought it was very complicated to create an AI. All I could see was complex projects like CYC which have been under development for 20+ years. Then in 2012 several things happened...

1KB Simple English Chatbot

Is it possible to chat with someone who only has 1KB of intelligence? Try it!
This bot is completely defined via 1KB AIML-file.

Chatbot. Mind map

You know, the are many different chatbots. Just for definition of this phenomenon's context I'd like to present to you the following mind map.

I hope, it will help us to classify existing chatbots and to choose relevant themes for this blog.