How to be Good chatter?

There are several fields of AI, one of which is natural language. Many weak AI fields have specialised software or programming languages created for them. For example, one of the 'most-human' natural language chatterbots, A.L.I.C.E., uses a programming language AIML that is specific to its program, and the various clones, named Alicebots. Nevertheless, A.L.I.C.E. is still based on pattern matching without any reasoning. This is the same technique Eliza, the first chatterbot, was using back in 1966. Jabberwacky is a little closer to strong AI, since it learns how to converse from the ground up based solely on user interactions. In spite of that, the result still appear fairly poor, and it seems reasonable to state that there is currently no general purpose conversational artificial intelligence. This has lead some software developers to focus more on the practical aspect of chatterbot technology - information retrieval.