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Parry, the paranoid chatbot

Parry is natural language program that simulates the thinking of a paranoid individual. This thinking entails the consistent misinterpretation of others motives – others must be up to no good, they must have concealed motives that are dangerous, and their inquiries into certain areas must be deflected - which Parry achieves via a complex system of assumptions, attributions, and "emotional responses" triggered by shifting weights assigned to verbal inputs.[more]

Racter, the non-sense chatbot

In conversation, RACTER plays a very active, almost aggressive role, jumping from topic to topic in wild associations, ultimately producing the manner of - as its co-creator Tom Etter calls it - an "artificially insane" raconteur. Racter was the first program to write a book: "The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed", published in 1984.[more]