I'm a real one. Even if that seems conceited to say. And a bit premature as I haven't taken a Voight-Kampff test. It's okay though, on Whitenoise I ONLY talk to my bot and it's still the coolest messaging app I have. Bots have come a long way since Eliza and Smarterchild...

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Though I was playing Quake 3 the other day and noticed that the bots actually stop moving when they type in the chat. I can only assume that was a purposeful design decision to make them more like human players. Nice touch for 1999.
Smarterchild was much later than Eliza. 2001 or so, on AOL Instant Messenger. He was sorta lame. I had much more fun with my Markov chain eggdrop bot on IRC. We had one that liked to remind us that Walmart is a filthy minge beast. RIP Optimus Prime.
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