Big Fractal Tangle: irc street corners
Big Fractal Tangle: irc street corners The most interesting bots on IRC I think are the infobots, or the infobot alikes. What they do is sit in a channel and look for lines of the form “a is b”, when they see a line like this they save it into a database somewhere. Then, later, you can ask “what is a?” and the bot will reply “a is b”. By leaving it sitting quietly on a channel it can quickly learn a lot of valuable common information that the channel has, and can become a virtual wiki like system itself where anyone can add an “answer” to a question. I’ve been wondering (but never got around to trying), implementing an infobot that import/export’s to RDF. For instance asking “what is Timothy’s email address” the bot could look it up in a FOAF file and return the answer.