Chatbots Archive September 2011

All out of love? Have a chat with the Perfect Girlfriend and she’ll make you feel better. Created with the Perfect Boyfriend for PBL media.

Sarah was launched in 2011 to act as a concierge on the MyCyberTwin website. Sarah can help customers find out more about MyCyberTwin, recommend products suited to their needs, and engage in meaningful conversational chat.

Speak with Meg, an 18-year-old college freshman from Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Designed with 'easy English' for non-native English speakers.

Sol is the archetypal virtual assistant joining artificial-solutions from the 23rd century. She and her fellow VA´s are here to help organizations cut the costs of meeting rising demand for customer service. They can understand and interpret the meaning and context of customer queries usinge-mail, live-chat, sms or social networks. They can learn reason and understand and apply this knowledge to real customer interactions. They can answer questions, point to information or resourses, log issues, book service calls, even complete transactions through back-end or e-commerce systems and update databases- at all the same time.

Sol shines through as she chats with visitors to the website. If you try to catch her out or upset her , she wont get grumpy, but mat well surprised with the ansear, An embassador for Artificial Solutions, Sol tirelessly 24 hours a day.

Harumi is a programmable chatbot working in pair with open office, ready to use in english and french. It is available for the public since summer 2010. You have to edit some part of its memory in order to use it in english or any other language. It was programmed in Delphi and is able to learn from the user.
Harumi brain is very light at the beginning, almost empty in fact. When you write a sentence, Harumi ask you what you mean. The second sentence is then linked to the first one, except if the second sentence reminds her something else, in which case Harumi will link the first sentence to it. With time, this simple algorithm produces good results. Harumi will tend to have your personnality.

Nevertheless, Harumi was not only built as a chat experiment for turing test. From the beginning of the development, Harumi is a usefull program :
You can ask her for your appointments, phone numbers, adress, internet url, files repertory.... all of those informations are stocked in its mind, a file called memory.ods
You can ask her to translate words from english to french, or to seach for a file on a drive. It is possible for her to remind you things you have to do, or to record your feelings and randomly remind you sentences linked to your bad or good mood.
She's able to execute a program, to give you your ip and emac adress or to calculate an operation. As you can see, many windows functions can be replaced by Harumi.

Voice Actions is an advanced virtual assistant for Androids and iPhones. It is comparable to Apples Siri but also lets you make phone calls, write e-mails, send sms, access information and do many more tasks on Android and iPhone devices. Information retrieval is done in a hierarchic fashion, so when people ask for the definition of abstinence the result comes directly from Wikipedia without bothering the APIs of Yahoo Answers, ChaCha, answers.com, pandorabot, cleverbot or other services.

This robot is deeply integrated into the android system, so that settings can be queried and changed via voice as well.

Jeannie is a powerful virtual assistant and chatbot living inside android phones.