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Parry Parries Again: Reanimating the Famous Paranoid Chatbot (In a Day)

7 pointsby abrax3141last Monday at 2:32 AM1 commentview on HN

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abrax3141last Monday at 2:32 AM

Lars Brinkhoff brought up PARRY, Kenneth Colby's 1972 paranoid chatbot, and Rupert Lane, who recently reanimated the original ELIZA, was able to (sort of) reproduce the famous RFC439 trans-internet conversation between ELIZA and PARRY. See the blog post for the amazing (and amusing) details! (Turns out that RFC439 used a Lisp ELIZA, not the MAD-SLIP original.)