GVZ

GVZ was basically ELIZA but dumber. Its name is short for “geveze”, which means “chatterbox” in Turkish.

It had arguably the most simple-minded pattern matching algorithm (i.e. a series of if statements), but came with some advanced features, such as:

• Understands a total of 385 patterns including “asl” and “shit”
• Has message presets such as “This program is awesome!” and “Props to your programmer!”
• Greets you differently according to the time of day
• Can strike up random conversations and do simple calculations
• Uses smileys :)
• Knows about celebrities such as Britney Spears and Gandalf
• Nudges you a few times, then leaves, if you don’t answer for a while
• If you swear enough, retaliates by changing its nickname to something offensive (which I’ll leave to your imagination)

It wasn’t a language model, but it was honest work.