As some of you have noticed there was an artificial intelligence chatterbot (bot) in the main chatroom for a couple of days. In response to the complaints posted here and the others that I received by email the bot has been moved to a secondary chat room.
For those of you that are interested in finding out more about the bot a great resource is
A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Intelligence Foundation). This bot is based on the original Loebner Prizewinning AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) set. There is plenty of room to develop its personality by improving its AIML so I hope to gradually learn to rewrite the bot's program to improve it's ability to converse.
To those of you that found it annoying I'm very sorry to have inconvenienced you.
All comments, suggestions and complaints are welcome here. Thank you for taking the time to bring this issue to my attention.