🤖 Anyone remember a John Lennon bot in the 2000s?

[Starshyne9]

Playing "Escape to Nutopia" has reminded me of something I used to play around with in the late 1990s/early 2000s. There as a John Lennon "bot." It was just text. You could go on there and ask "John" a question and he would answer you in a very Lennon-way. It was very funny and entertaining. One time I got him to say, "I love you, Sara," which tickled me to no end. Does anyone else remember this or was it just a dream?

Sara S.

 

[Lime/Wander]

Playing "Escape to Nutopia" has reminded me of something I used to play around with in the late 1990s/early 2000s. There as a John Lennon "bot." It was just text. You could go on there and ask "John" a question and he would answer you in a very Lennon-way. It was very funny and entertaining. One time I got him to say, "I love you, Sara," which tickled me to no end. Does anyone else remember this or was it just a dream?

Sara S.

oh my god that sounds so interesting...this was obviously before I was born so I don't really have anything to say here but that sounded so cool...

 

[Skylar Moody]

Playing "Escape to Nutopia" has reminded me of something I used to play around with in the late 1990s/early 2000s. There as a John Lennon "bot." It was just text. You could go on there and ask "John" a question and he would answer you in a very Lennon-way. It was very funny and entertaining. One time I got him to say, "I love you, Sara," which tickled me to no end. Does anyone else remember this or was it just a dream?

Sara S.

Someone find this immediately, it’s for science…

 

[Moondog O'Boogie]

Yes!! I remember this. I believe it was called the John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project? It was kinda impressive for its time.

 

[Skylar Moody]

Yes!! I remember this. I believe it was called the John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project? It was kinda impressive for its time.

Some things never seem to change…

 

[Starshyne9]

Yes!! I remember this. I believe it was called the John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project? It was kinda impressive for its time.

Yes that was it! I wasted so much of my time when I was in college talking to "John" and NOT doing my school work. LOL!

 

[Moondog O'Boogie]

Yes that was it! I wasted so much of my time when I was in college talking to "John" and NOT doing my school work. LOL!

I put in some hours on it as well! Lol
Just looked it up and there was a website still for it.

 

[Camilla Karine]

I've never heard of it, but I'd love to meet it.

 

[Good Dog Nigel]

The John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project is a chatbot from the last century - developed in 1997 and launched in 1999 - designed to simulate a conversation with John Lennon. It was developed as a "Persona-Bot" by Triumph PC Online, based in Washington, D.C.

Triumph PC's "Persona-Bots" are software programs that attempt to mimic the personalities or quirks of particular historical figures in conversation. The code is based on Richard Wallace's Alicebot.

The JLAI Project (originally called the Plastic Digital Karma Project) developed the chatbot as one of several "Persona-Bots". The Austin Chronicle described the software in 2003 as giving a "lifelike impersonation" of Lennon, but felt that it had "a way to go" before it would feel like a conversation with a real person.

It was an independent project - not done in collaboration with the JL Estate.

WIRED published an article about it in June 2001.
Ray Connolly wrote an article about it for The Evening Standard in Oct 2002.
And the Bot itself is here, folks!