xmppguru@appspot.com
XMPP Provides easy and clean ways to build XMPP Bots, as I showed on the previous post, we can use Google AppEngine to create 24h online, zero-maintenance Bots.
One interesting Bot is a Guru One, the main objective of this Bot is to clarify topics, answer general knowledge questions and retrieve hints for general opinion.
You can add it to your GTalk's / Jabber Contacts: xmppguru@appspot.com
Examples of general knowledge:
Question: What is Aerosmith?
xmppguru: Aerosmith is an American hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band".
Question: What is an atomic bomb?
xmppguru: nuclear weapon: an explosive device whose destructive power is due to the uncontrollable release of energy from the fission of heavy nuclei, usually uranium-235 or plutonium-239, by neutrons sustaining a rapid chain reaction
Question: Who invented the harpoon?
xmppguru: Endangered Species question: Who invented the harpoon cannon? Sven (or Svend) Foyn (1809-1894) was a whaler born in Tønsberg in southeast Norway. In 1856, he invented the bow ...
Examples of general opinion:
Question: What is a good song?
xmppguru: What is a good song to "give" someone who you are …
Question: Do you trust god?
xmppguru: The Bible tells us to have faith: (Hebrews 11:6 NIV) And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he ...
The Bot is not meant to have conscience neither deep lexical interpretation, the goal is to answer your question when possible, something directly with a straight answer, but something also vague hints.
For unknown answers the principe is the same of Horoscope, but in a scientific way.
the best way of discovering how it works, purpose and functionality is by testing it.
Sometimes you will be surprised even asking by your full name. In the same way you will be surprised by crappy answers. Enjoy!
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Maybe I misunderstood something but this kind of bots are not zero-maintenance. You have to run them somewhere, hence you need a machines which is running all the time and is connected to the internet. I think that's a details which is quite often missed....
ReplyDeleteNeat! What service are you using to get the answers? Do you plan to release the source?
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