TuringCraft

Inspired by Weizenbaum's ELIZA, Ben Weber has created a chatbot that converses with other players in online games of StarCraft. The bot's name is EISBot. "Once every thirty seconds," explains Weber, "EISBot randomly selects a message from a pool of 75 messages and sends it to the console." As the following transcript reveals, the bot's randomly chosen messages fit seamlessly into the conversation: EISBot: What to ally victory? Player: damn you Player: im not stupid EISBot: Wanna join my clan ...