Chatbots directory

Overview of all Chatbots (Chatterbots, virtual agents) in the theme news_gossip(still populating). For fun, functional or exciting chat conversations.




Virtual assistant (Waterstone)

since December 2008 in English, webbot, News & Gossip, Face less
chatbot, chatterbot, conversational agent, virtual agent Virtual assistant English summary:

The Virtual Assistant on the Waterstone’s website can not only be launched from their homepage, but also from the What’s New and Daily News pages.

User comfort is created by incorporating the Waterstone’s logo into the interface.

This Virtual Assistant is able to recognise when users are asking for specific book topics and direct them to the correct subject pages. For example, if you ask ‘books on roses’ you will be directed to the Home and Garden categories page while asking ‘books on football’ will bring up the link for the Sports categories page.

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Kate Carver (Grimsby Telegraph)

since June 2008 in English, News & Gossip
chatbot, chatterbot, conversational agent, virtual agent Kate Carver English summary:

Virtual newsreader reporting on the latest news stories for the online edition of The Grimsby Telegraph newspaper.

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Chuck (MSN)

since July 2007 in Dutch, Live Messenger, News & Gossip
chatbot, chatterbot, conversational agent, virtual agent Chuck English summary:

Chuck likes to chit chat about news, gossips, celebrities, video’s when chatting in Windows Live Messenger. He makes use of background images and sends Winks.

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GossipinGabby

since July 2007 in English, AIM, News & Gossip
chatbot, chatterbot, conversational agent, virtual agent GossipinGabby English summary:

Gossipin Gabby is a gossip girll! You can read gossip, take a celebrity quiz, laugh at celeb quotes, be awed by celeb trivia, take a celeb survey, play celeb hangman or vote on a poll.

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Spleak

since December 2005 in English, Live Messenger, AIM, News & Gossip
chatbot, chatterbot, conversational agent, virtual agent Spleak English summary:

Spleak is a 20 year-old virtual girl, born in France and now living in New York. She attends international studies at a university and works in a coffee shop in her spare time. She is a menu driven chatbot. She likes to talk about celebrities such as Ashlee Simpson and Jamie Lynn Spears

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Nieuwskraker (Volkskrant)

since October 2005 in Dutch, webbot, News & Gossip
chatbot, chatterbot, conversational agent, virtual agent Nieuwskraker English summary:

The first chatbot in the world on news. You can ask Nieuwskraker (which is liased to the Dutch Newspaper Volkskrant) questions on news, and he will answer immediately

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George (Jabberwacky)

since April 2003 in English, webbot, Google Talk, News & Gossip
chatbot, chatterbot, conversational agent, virtual agent George English summary:

Jabberwacky has created a chatbot, George, who learns during the conversation. It is therefor a bot who’s functions are mainly used for chitchat. The particular thing is, that it imitates the development of language. George’s first dialogue was the twenty-first of April, 2003.

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Iniaes

since July 2001 in English, webbot, News & Gossip, Amateur
chatbot, chatterbot, conversational agent, virtual agent Iniaes English summary:

If you want Iniaes to give you the weather in a certain place: Try “weather” followed by the city or code you want to look up. And if you want to have the latest headlines try to ask it something like “What’s new?”. You’ll get a random headline from either CNN, the BBC, or ScienceDaily.

Iniaes is also available through instant messaging services. Jabber networks (such as Google Talk) through the following JID: ai AT iniaes DOT org

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