[cmrdporcupine]

I often wonder if the MUD and/or the interactive fiction genre is set for a bit of a renaissance now with the arrival of absolutely stellar natural language recognition systems. Some of the chatbots I've interacted with are mind boggling, and tied to a massive shared world of objects in a MUD/MOO-style I can imagine a lot of potential.

[brlewis]

MUDs have always had natural language recognition in the form of other players. The interaction is realistic because it's real.

That said, NLP could widen the already broad possibilities of interactions with NPCs.