A look into 7 engaging chatbots; their strengths and what makes them unique.

The best AI based chatbots available online are Mitsuku, Rose, Poncho, Right Click, Insomno Bot, Dr. AI and Melody.

1. Mitsuku

This chatbot is one the best AI chatbots and it’s my favorite too. Evidently it is the current winner of Loebner Prize. The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition is that of a standard Turing test. You can talk with Mitsuku for hours without getting bored. It replies to your question in the most humane way and understands your mood with the language you’re using.

It is a bot made to chat about anything, which is one of the main reasons that make it so human-like — contrary to other chatbots that are made for a specific task.

2. Rose

Rose is a chatbot, and a very good one — she won recognition this past Saturday as the most human-like chatbot in a competition described as the first Turing test, the Loebner Prize in 2014 and 2015.

3. Right Click

Right Click is a startup that introduced an A.I.-powered chatbot that creates websites. It asks general questions during the conversation like “What industry you belong to?” and “Why do you want to make a website?” and creates customized templates as per the given answers. Hira Saeed tried to divert it from its job by asking it about love, but what a smart player it is! By replying to each of her queries, it tried to bring her back to the actual job of website creation. The process was short but keeps you hooked.

4. Poncho

Poncho is a Messenger bot designed to be your one and only weather expert. It sends alerts up to twice a day with user consent and is intelligent enough to answer questions like “Should I take an umbrella today?”

5. Insomno bot

Insomno bot is for night owls. As the name suggests, it is for all people out there who have trouble sleeping. This bot talks to you when you have no one around and gives you amazing replies so that you won’t get bored. It’s not something that will help you count stars when you can’t sleep or help you with reading suggestions, but this bot talks to you about anything.

6. Dr A.I.

It asks about symptoms, body parameters and medical history, then compiles a list of the most and least likely causes for the symptoms and ranks them by order of seriousness.

7. Melody by Baidu

It lives inside the existing Biadu Doctor app. This app collects medical information from people and then passes it to doctors in a form that makes it easier to use for diagnostic purposes or to otherwise respond to.