[E. Pluribus Unum]

Soon the Internet will be clogged to a standstill with chatbots chatting with counter-chatbots.

[Asclepius]

Called ChatNannies, the software was developed in the UK by Jim Wightman, an IT consultant from Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. It creates thousands of sub-programs, called nanniebots, which log on to different chatrooms and strike up conversations with users and groups of users.

We need software that creates thousands of sub-programs called jihadibots, which log to different chatrooms and strike up conversations with users and groups of users and attempt discover terrorists.

[Leroy S. Mort]

B - consider me chilled, daddy-o

Oh, please. Don't tell me "daddy-o" is back in favor among subteens. Shades of Annette......

[PropheticZero]

Wow..I'm impressed by that conversation assuming it the real deal and doesn't take excessive amounts of setup for a conversation like that.

I hope hacker/crackers will have some good sense and leave this one alone and let it do some good if it can.

One bridge they'll have to cross at somepoint though is whether or not its illegal to proposition a computer program pretending to be a young child.

[Redcoat LI]

Didn't Orrin Hatch have some wacky scheme to fry computers of people who were file sharing?

Maybe they could merge these two Ideas,with Fragmentation Grenades.

[ModelBreaker]

It's good. But if you're looking for it, it was obviously B.

[DBrow]

A bot that passes the Turing test? It would get lots more press than that.

can a bot detect another bot?

Is chatting up such a bot probable cause if you happen to fit it's algorithm?

Can network news anchors be replaced now?

[FoxInSocks]

A - national holiday in the uk!

. . . <snip> . . .

A - national holiday in the uk!

B - lol

B - hey, where are you from? the usa?

A - no the uk. Birmingham.

The 'bot doesn't listen very well.

[DBrow]

http://www.alicebot.org/

http://www.jabberwacky.com/

Google shows lots of chat bots out there.

Using robots to catch human criminals makes me uneasy, especially this one that relys on "profiles" to discern intent.

[Explorer89]

Yeah, that's cute, but can this guy build a Freeper-bot?

[js1138]

B has noticably longer responses. But both spell too well.

[wewillnotfail]

Somebody better warn ritter....or not.