Tag: CHATBOT

Microsoft is sponsoring a contest that challenges developers to create chatbots for the MSN/Windows Live Messenger network. The contest, called Invasion of the Robots, promises over $40,000 in prizes, including the grand prize, a sweet Alienware system or US$10,000 in cash. The deadline is September 15, and Judging will presumably be done by a Microsoft panel (the contest rules just say "qualified ...

Sternest Meanings is a chatbot that will respond to everything you say with a clever anagram. There's a web-based interface to talk to Sternest Meanings, or you can add sternestmeanings to your AIM buddy list and talk to it via IM. It's powered by Anagram Genius, and some of the anagrams it comes up with are remarkably cogent. What's it good for, you ask? Well, nothing, but that's beside the ...