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I spent more than 10 minutes having weird conversations with Silly Bean, a bot that told me “I am pure virgin” and called me mean. This bot is not always precise — it told me it was both a man and a woman in the span of about five minutes — but it sure is conversational. Made by developer Lennart Lopin, Silly Bean is more than a decade old. It’s conversational in the way Microsoft’s Zo and the Hugging Face app are; that is, it is able to maintain conversation. The bot says it learns from user input, and though the thread was sometimes nonsensical, somewhere in my conversation with Silly Bean (aka Prelude), I experienced the reaction virtually every product wants to provoke: delight.
https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/15/google-assistant-gets-the-motley-fool-bart-train-tracker-and-more/