Heh, a "collection of automation programs". I've also put together something like this and called it "Sentinel". It's not smart, it just does all the repetitive tasks (relentless, 24/7, a human couldn't do it) and any computer tasks that can be broken down in simple steps.<p>It can farm for content and rewrite it, sort my mail and send replies, start backup and sync tasks, start remote maintenance scripts, notify me by SMS, email or calls, has TTS and voice recognition, can check articles for uniqueness, scan for duplicate files, search for anything locally, create articles from templates, and more.<p>But it's just a bunch of programs running inside a VM that's connected to the host machine using a few shared folders, LAN and remote desktop - anyone can whip up something like it...
Looking at the results, I get the impression that "Eve"'s abilities are being oversold a smigden: <a href="http://www.totopoetry.com/search.asp?word=cow" rel="nofollow">http://www.totopoetry.com/search.asp?word=cow</a>
And this is the beginning of economic entity 2.0: a Self Managing, Self Optimizing, Economic program, that also happens to provide the service that makes it money. Humans are only needed to read the instructions, replace the parts, and satisfy the legal system (or well, in this case, design and build the thing)
There once was a bot we'll call Eve<p>Whose random poetry failed to achieve<p>T'was without any malice<p>Thinking better was Alice<p>With the Loebner prize safe as can be
Here's a link to ask her questions to which the answers are supposed to be coming from the dictionary itself. <a href="http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/eve/time" rel="nofollow">http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/eve/time</a> However when asked any questions she seems to be under maintenance.