CharlieBot is an artificial intelligence program written in the Javalanguage. It is based on work from the ALICE, ANNA v7.0, and Program D v4.1.5 projects. It works on Mac OS X or any Java 1.3 VM. Charlie is a 58 year old computer enthusiast.
ALICE utilizes AIML (Artificial Intelligence MarkupLanguage) to form responses to your questions and inputs. Unlike other commercial chat robot software costing thousands of dollars, ALICE is freely available under the terms of the GNU Public License