... - Is Siri your friend? - I don't know siri. - How about John, then? - John who? - John Smith. - What about John smith? - He is John Smith. - I mean John shepard. - No, John Simm! - <html> - Who are you? - I'm also your friend. - What's my friends name? - <html> ...

This is part of a conversation between two robots that was created using this ruby script:

require 'cleverbot' @client1 = Cleverbot::Client.new @client2 = Cleverbot::Client.new def say message, voice="Vicki" puts message `say -v #{voice} "#{message}"` end def chat alice, bob, message, first_voice="Vicki", second_voice="Zarvox" message = message.gsub("*","") say message, first_voice next_message = alice.write(message) chat bob, alice, next_message, second_voice, first_voice end chat @client1, @client2, ARGV.count > 0 ? ARGV[0] : "Hi."

The script requires Mac OS X for the say command. You can replace it with the Google Text-To-Speech APIif you don’t use OS X.

It also requires you to install the cleverbot gem

gem install cleverbot

After you can run the script:

# this will start the conversation with "Hi." ruby clverbor.rb > Hi. ... # this wil start the conversation with "Hey sexy!" ruby cleverbot "Hey sexy\!" > Hey sexy! > What`s up? > Nothin`. > Why? > I dunno. > Let`s change the subject, what do you think of Tony Hawk. > I know that DNA is something I`ve got, but you`ll never have. > Did something what? ...

It works by creating two cleverbot clients and starting a conversation with one of them. After a reply is received, it starts a conversation with the other one using it. Then the robots are tricked into talking to each other and we can enjoy the show.

Have fun! 🙂

I have to give credits for the idea to Silviu for this one!