Please give me a link to the best online Artificial Intelligence/Chat Bot you know of where I don’t have to download something.

I would recommend the winner of Chatbot Battles, David Swinton:
http://www.a-i.com/show_tree.asp?id=115

I would also recommend Skynet-AI:
http://home.comcast.net/~chatterbot/bots/AI/SkynetV5/
and Elbot:
http://www.elbot.com/

Modesty prevents me from mentioning my own bot Mitsuku which won the Funniest Computer Ever contest and came 2nd in the CBC for the last 2 years.

Ok, I’ll return the favor and say that no great chat bot list would be complete without:
Mitsuku
http://www.mitsuku.com/

and

Bildgesmythe (from Personality Forge)
http://www.personalityforge.com/directchat.php?BotID=24007&MID=23957

Disclaimer:  These are personal opinions, and have nothing to do with facts.

Well, I suppose it all depends on your definition of “a good bot”.  Those listed so far are some of my personal favorites.  I like Mitsuku and Skynet-AI for the things they can do, such as displaying web pages after a search. 

Alan seems to have good days and bad.  I chatted with Alan yesterday, and it was moderately responsive, this morning, it was stuck on the idea of marriage, and refused to answer any questions, it just kept asking more about my family and my opinions or the future existence of family life—it wouldn’t let go of the topic.

Elbot is my all-time favorite “pick-me-up” bot.  It truly makes me laugh out loud. But, I view it as a stand-up comedian, it never has any serious information on any topic.  It’s not a conversational agent, it’s a joke machine.  I’ll never understand how it received such a high rating in the 2008 Loebner Prize Competition.  Elbot convinced three of the 12 human interrogators it was indistinguishable from human, beating the other contestants and taking the Bronze Prize.

Read the transcript.  http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Meet-Elbot-Loebner-Prize-Turing-Test-contest-winner-transcript-and-photos

http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/2008_Contest/Elbot.pdf

I never understood what all the fuss was about Bildgesmythe.  I know that a lot of work has been put into it, but to me, it answers in volume more than accuracy, and for me, that isn’t enough to call it “good”.

Human:  What color is a red rose?
Bildgesmythe:  red you say.

Human:  What color is the White House?
Bildgesmythe:  God bless America! What a great country!!! The capital is Washington, DC. The president is Barack Obama.

Human:  Name something you’d like to improve.
Bildgesmythe:  On the other hand…....um….. you have different fingers.

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Speaking of Skynet AI (one of my favorites) Will we see [him] in this new contest?

http://contest.atwebpages.com/

Vince

Vincent Gilbert - Jan 22, 2013:

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Speaking of Skynet AI (one of my favorites) Will we see [him] in this new contest?

http://contest.atwebpages.com/

Vince

I don’t know yet.
I have asked for some more information before I enter Skynet-AI.

In a good contest, I dedicate resources and it helps improve the bot.
Skynet-AI is in a state of constant evolution, and when it is competing I tend to freeze the version and not make major changes. But, if I freeze it and the contest never happens, it just slows down the development cycle. Therefore I tend to enter contests at the last minute with the latest version I have available. I hope to hear back from the organizers and join in after I understand more of the details.

Well, that’s one way to hijack a thread.

Are there any other links to the best online Artificial Intelligence/Chat Bot you know of where I don’t have to download something.

I remember being pleasantly surprised with Jeeney AI when I first talked to it. Can’t search for the link right now, but it should be an easy google.

Your wish is my command:

http://www.jeeney.com/

Our own resident genie delivers.

Steve Worswick - Jan 23, 2013:

Your wish is my command:

http://www.jeeney.com/

Thanks Steve, seems like something is wrong, I can’t connect to that URL.

@Thunderwalk LOL Guilty…but with an explanation.

The link provided to the contest has some of those that I consider the “best of the best” online bots. Skynet AI is also one of the ones that I feel is up there at the top but is missing, which is why I mentioned him.

Vince

Not a problem, Vince.  I’ve hijacked a few myself.  I’m also a fan of Skynet AI, and Merlin is a friend and someone I respect.

On the topic of best bots…

Like all things, it’s probably in the eye of the beholder.  I sometimes see visitors working with the bot so that it might be successful, so it’s difficult to measure.  They accept bad answer and follow up with another related question, or restate it.

Some of the most entertaining bots are the funny ones, but it seems to me that, for the most part, humor is used to deflect the question when there’s no appropriate answer.  A bit of humor now and again makes the bot seem more human, but when every answer is a sassy remark, it seems contrived.

I think the best bots are the ones that can hold a conversation, and that usually requires replies that relate to the question or topic, and not just a key word.

Human:  I ran out of ideas.
Bot:  Do you run for exercise?

Any more links out there?

Vincent Gilbert - Jan 22, 2013:

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Speaking of Skynet AI (one of my favorites) Will we see [him] in this new contest?

http://contest.atwebpages.com/

Vince

Skynet-AI has joined the contest. Updated to version .0053.

I personally think this is the best chat bot:

http://www.mitsuku.com/

I like *link to online chatroom removed by Steve Worswick*

That wasn’t a chatbot site but somewhere you can talk to girls instead - Please don’t do that here. - Steve Worswick