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   Or some other technical title describing programs that attempt to   
   vaguely lead a conversation.   
      
   First of all, a disclaimer: I've only just come across this group, and   
   I have no idea what the ethics or rules of this group are. Also, I'm   
   sure I sound pretty demanding in my message, but what I'm explaining is   
   not a requirement; it is simply what's on my mind and would be really   
   cool if I could see something along these lines. Any programs along the   
   lines of AI, as long as it's within my reach (I can't say I'm great   
   with following directions), would be nice. I have written "I would like   
   to see..." (or something to that effect) in front of many of my   
   sentences below. Imagine that is written in front of all of the   
   sentences. So, answers for the newbie?   
      
   I would be very interested to see what kinds of programs exist along   
   these lines, what they can do, etc.   
      
   It would be really cool to see a program that can attempt to vaguely   
   lead a conversation with a human being (most likely with text input; I   
   can't imagine that anything resembling HAL exists today; possibly an   
   underestimation on my part).   
      
   It would also be interesting (though not as much so) to see two   
   Artificially Intelligent bots interact with full-fledged English   
   sentences (again, text input is more likely, as far as I can tell). No   
   cheating here! Plain text input ONLY!   
   (In an OOP program, for example, you have to call an object method for   
   sending a message with only the text input as an argument, and only   
   that same object method, no matter what the general subject of the text   
   input, whatever the sentence structure may be, etc. In programs that   
   follow different structures than OOP, similar limitations would have to   
   be placed)   
      
   I have a decent amount of experience with python, some experience with   
   java, and extremely limited experience with C++, so I would like to be   
   able to see some open-source projects in those languages.   
      
   Can anyone enlighten me?   
      
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