Nice work on the AIM s/w by the way Rob, I guessed you must have been glued to a monitor for a while now fixing bugs, so thought I would send some good news your way:
I had never use HAL AIMbot successfully until trying again this week, and found it's a whole new area to explore. I found Hal had a better and surprisingly realistic chat with Arakus's Hal, than it did talking to an ALICE bot. Alice tended to repeat herself too often, forcing Hal into the same topic area. In all between the two Hal definately came out on top, because he/she has a much wider range of responses.
So well done!
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Also, it got me wondering...has Hal ever entered the Loebner competition?