==== chat bots and other simulacra ====

ALICE the talking computer program -> http://www.alicebot.org/ -> hooking up CyC (or OpenCyc) to eliza, and other mishaps -> http://opencyc.org -> MegaHAL -> http://www.megahal.net/ which begat Salvatore -> http://www.amristar.com.au/~hutch/salvatore/ -> JFRED -> http://famous.aspect.to/use/jfred/ which begat DJINN -> http://famous.aspect.to/use/djinn/docs/

related: [[Artificial Intelligence]]