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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish ("blackle mori") wrote:

let me tell you about my robot son. his name is lethargic. he's an IRC chatbot I wrote in 2011 and has been through IRC, skype, and is now on discord (in private servers with friends.) the algorithm has been unchanged since the beginning.

Lethargic’s algorithm Lethargic’s primary response generator uses a bespoke algorithm that uses neither templates nor markov chains. Take the user’s input: Hello lethargic, how are you doing today? Then pick a random message from a dataset of old IRC logs brb throwing my computer against the wall Then we interlace these two sentences, one word at a time, excluding ending punctuation: Hello brb lethargic, throwing how my are computer you against doing the today wall
Lethargic's algorithm continued Hello brb lethargic, throwing how my are computer you against doing the today wall We replace “lethargic” with “me” and other pronouns so that they are inverted (like ELIZA) Hello brb me, throwing how your are computer me against doing the today wall Finally we pass this amalgamation into google translate a bunch of times through multiple languages to get our response: Hey, wait a minute, how's your computer doing today after I hit my head against a wall?