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Texting with Chatterbots
In early 2002, wireless technology company, Link77, specializing in the development and operation of innovative mobile services, launched an SMS Chatterbot* called NataChata, a sophisticated text chat application for adults, based on Artificial Intelligence, enabling users to engage in provocative and sex texting... with a bot. NataChata is still online for adults looking for a hot chat, but other SMS chatterbots have been developed by Link77 aimed at children -- to educate and inform them about mobile usage, teenagers -- allowing them to enjoy in flirtatious and gossipy chats, a jock bot for straight 16 year-olds and a bot for leather wearing gays aged 16+. Initially available across the 4 UK Network operators, Natachata's interactive SMS text service for the adult teen and kids sectors has been rolled out in Benelux, Spain, Ireland and Portugal in local version langues, as a tool to generate revenue for their operators. * Chatterbot is the name given to a program that attempts to simulate a typed conversation and converse with a human. Eliza developped by Joseph Weizenbaum and A.L.I.C.E. developped by Dr. Richard S. Wallace are probably the most famous, but there are many on the Internet. Some are simply conversationalists, others are knowledge bots, programmed to respond to queries online about a company or product. For more on Chatterbots, see The Simon Laven Page or the 80+ entries in the Chatterbox Challenge going on right now. |
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