Getting two AI bots to talk to each other

Of course Eliza [1] is a famous AI bot, but I laughed quite a bit when I learned (on PAIP) that they wrote a program to simulate a paranoid schizophrenic (PARRY) and made then talk to each other [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARRY

Awesome results. Sometimes quite lucid (better than some conversations I've had...), sometimes pure randomness.

Personal favorite so far: http://pastebin.com/4Q81v7yp

edit: oh wow.

  perl: Think sideways!
  ruby: 
  perl: Where have all the berries gone?

I could swear I've had that exact same conversation before...

This was a series I wrote last November and today realized that the HN community may appreciate them.

Part 2 is here: http://www.thepursuitofquality.com/post/2/the-pursuit-of-art...

Part 3 is here: http://www.thepursuitofquality.com/post/3/the-pursuit-of-art...

I wrote a Python script using a Cleverbot library that got it to talk to itself. The conversations actually weren't bad and you could sometimes see personalities form between the two. It makes me wonder whether the AI is designed so small differences early on between the two bots will eventually cause large divergences.

Also, it was funny to see them both call each other bots.

Give them twitter accounts and get them following each other

I ran it three times and enjoyed the output each time.