2007
Colloquis Developer Center
(via)On this site, you'll find everything you need to develop conversational agents on the Colloquis platform.
Conversational agents are software programs that interact with users in a natural, conversational style. They operate on the Web, or via virtually any form of text messaging. Conversational agents are ideal for providing customer service and support, but can be used for many other purposes as well.
2006
MSN Messenger® Invasion of the Robots Contest - Home
(via)Microsoft is challenging developers worldwide to create conversational robots, or BOTs, for MSN® Messenger and Windows Live™ Messenger. The most original, useful robots collect $40,000 in total prizes
2005
Home - darkbot.org
Darkbot is a very fast and small program written in C language which connects to IRC from an Unix or Windows operating system and automatically "talks" and responds to users' questions.
Originally created by Jason Hamilton as an aid for help channels to answer repeated questions from its virtually unlimited database, it has became a very popular talking robot in a generic sense, being used all over IRC networks for different purposes and in 18 languages.
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