Latest in (open source) chatbot/fake AI?

Question

What is the lastest in open source chatbot/fake AI \'technology\' ? Is ELIZA/ALICE/MegaHAL still \'current\', or have there been made any advances in the past decade ?

Answer 1

In terms of up to date conversational agent FAQs, see my Meta Guide webpages, "Yahoo! Answers - Best Answers" & "Quora Answers". In terms of non-pattern matching, statistical dialog systems, I suggest looking at the USC Virtual Human Toolkit NPCEditor & the IBM Watson precursor QA system, OpenEphyra from CMU.