i don’t know what kind of rock i’ve been living under, but i have never heard of alicebot which looks like eliza on steroids:
“A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is an award-winning open source natural language artificial intelligence chat robot. The software used to create A.L.I.C.E. is available as free open source Alicebot and AIML software.”
alice gets it smarts via the artificial intelligence markup language, which looks easy to extend. i’d bet it wouldn’t be too hard too translate opencyc to aiml predicates. hmmm.