  "A bit negative is a terrible thing to waste" Two instances of the urlLink ALICE chatbot set up to talk to each other. Predictably, the conversation runs into the ground pretty quickly, but the early stages, in which they argue about which should download a copy of the other, is diverting, if you want a particularly vivid illlustratiion of the expression, "the lights are on but there's nobody home". Anyone who's ever been 'entertained' by a certain kind of PR executive will find this stuff disturbingly familiar. (via urlLink fmh ) Meanwhile, urlLink As Above points to an urlLink interaction between ALICE and Barry DeFacto (another successful chatbot) that took place in 1998, in which the conversation turned to... Star Trek. 
