BBC Technology did a great article with boffin Rollo Carpenter of Existor about the chatbots he programmed for 221B. They are quite interesting to play because instead of a choice of several dialogue options to interrogate a suspect, players have free text input and have to actually evaluate what they have already seen and formulate questions on their own. The chatbots have a certain number of scripted answers, they have to, but the number of possible inputs is infinite.

Caitlin Burns at The Social Robot gave the game and associated twitter content a thorough and thoughtful review that made me smile.

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