This obscure Korean bot has quietly turned into a swearing machine
Nov02
Back in 2002, way before the chatbot hype of 2016, Korean software development studio ISMaker came up with a simple but powerful idea. They wanted to create the first crowdsourced messenger bot. So they developed Simsimi, a friendly yellow ball you can chat with. For every sentence you type, it looks through its database of responses and spits out a random one. It doesn’t learn automatically, but in true early 2000s-style there’s a manual entry for teaching it new sentences. The original idea was to make Simsimi a fun, playful robot, as outlined in this blog post by its creators: SimSimi is a…
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