Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

I know how to setup chatbots for msn/aim/gtalk/yahoo, but they are simple response bots that trigger on keywords. they tend to br pretty obvious, but work well as autoresponders. If you spent enough time enteringin keywords and phrases and manually training the bot, I suppose you could get it going half decently. i suppose there's pprobably people who've created bots that work of markov chains or whatever and are semi decent at maintaining conversations though. iknow people have converted revisions of the eliza chatbot in similiar ways.