Benzo is a blabberbot written in python.
Version: 0.3Benzo is a blabberbot written in python. His means of generating text is a Markov Chain- an algorithm that takes english text as input, and generates output (when addressed) based on statistics gathered from the input text. At least thats what its used for here.
License: GPL
Operating System: Linux
Homepage: benzo.sourceforge.net
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Just a few notes about version 1.0:
1) The implementation of persistence is quite sloppy- the entire brain is loaded into memory on startup and flushed to disk at set intervals - which amounts to an eventuallly large memory footprint and a sizeable CPU hit as the brain is deserialized/serialized. Future versions will be DBM/SQL based, and not have this limitation.
2) The module interface is not cleanly defined yet- so expect cusomizations made now to break in future versions.
3) Ditto for the config file.
4) Ditto for the User DB.
If all that hasn't discouraged you, set the bot loose on your favorite IRC channel. Let him sit and learn for awhile before announcing his presence, or else he'll just repeat stuff.