10 Sep
2012
10 Sep
'12
11:25 a.m.
It sounds like something that used a Markov chain algorithm.
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Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP
On 2012-09-10, at 2:13 PM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Paul Anderson wrote:
> I'm trying to remember and locate a
chatterbot program from the heyday of DOS. I think it was called "jabber".
What made it particularly interesting is that you could feed three text files of stuff
(like novels, scientific papers, etc) and then control the proportions of how much of each
input file made it to the output. When all were set to zero, it would just emit
"jabber" over and over.
>
> Google isn't particularly helpful in finding this. I'm getting false hits on
the Jabber IM protocol and denial of service attacks.
Any chance it was jabberwacky?
http://www.jabberwacky.com/
No. It didn't engage in conversation.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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