So I had this wild idea last night to make a feature for my website where people could "talk" to my site mascot in plain english and hold a bizzar conversation with it. (if any of you remeber the DOS program Claude or that parrot program that used to ship with 8bit creative soundcards it'll be like that).

Tonight the rational part of my brain took over and I realized this project is way over my head. My origonal idea was just to set up a big database of words to pattern match then print responses. This would work, but it would not only be bulky (very big database) the canned resposes would also get old fast.

I was hoping someone out there might have undertaken a similar project and could offer some advice. I'm not looking for HAL here. It doesn't really even to make sense most of the time... but it should keep its entertainment value for a while.

Thanks for any help.

In reply to Handicaped perl AI: need advice by Bishma

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