SmarterChild
An intelligent bot
SmarterChild launched on August 8, 2014 with 15 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
What it does
SmarterChild was a chatbot available on AOL Instant Messenger and Windows Live Messenger (previously MSN Messenger ) networks. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] SmarterChild was an apparently intelligent agent or "bot" developed by ActiveBuddy , Inc., [ 3 ] with offices in New York and Sunnyvale. [ 4 ] It was widely distributed across global instant messaging networks. [ citation needed ] SmarterChild became very popular, attracting over 30 million Instant Messenger "buddies" on AIM (AOL), MSN and Yahoo Messenger over the course of its lifetime. [ 5 ] Founded in 2000, ActiveBuddy was the brainchild of Robert Hoffer and Timothy Kay, who later brought seasoned advertising executive Peter Levitan on board as CEO.…from en.wikipedia.org
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