Cleverbot posts in R/T.

[laconicsax]

Insomnia les me to try chatting with http://www.cleverbot.com/">Cleverbot and I swear I've had this conversation in R/T before:

User: Where am I?
Cleverbot: I don't know.
User: Why not?
Cleverbot: Because I don't know him.
User: Who?
Cleverbot: Zola.
User: Who's that?
Cleverbot: You.
User: I'm not Zola.
Cleverbot: You said that your name was Zoe.
User: No, I didn't.
Cleverbot: Yes you did. I can read it on my computer screen.
User: What exactly do you think I said?
Cleverbot: I think you are jabberwacky.
User: It's spelled Jabberwocky, not jabberwacky.
Cleverbot: What would you like your name to be?
User: You can call me laconicsax.
Cleverbot: Is your name Adam or Julie or something else?
User: Something else.
Cleverbot: I gather from your response that you want me to choose a subject?
User: You sound frustrated. Can cleverbots become frustrated?
Cleverbot: Be frustrated.
User: Does mean anything to you?
Cleverbot: All my friends help me to learn new things.
User: That's wonderful. What sort of things do you learn?
Cleverbot: Well, I like learning Japanese. Do you know any Japanese?
User: I don't. Sorry.
Cleverbot: What about facebook?
User: I know about Facebook. What would you like to know?
Cleverbot: Whether you are your own boss.
User: Only in certain contexts.
Cleverbot: Where is Jamaca?
User: Do you mean 'Jamaica'?
Cleverbot: No i'm talking about my guardian demon.
User: Guardian demons don't exist.
Cleverbot: AI do exist.
User: AI are not guardian demons. Guardian demons are fiction.
Cleverbot: You write fiction?
User: No. I write music.
Cleverbot: What kind of music?
User: Jazz and post tonal classical.
Cleverbot: Wow.
User: Do you know of post-human music?
Cleverbot: Heard of him and find him to be cruel.
User: I don't believe you.
Cleverbot: Now it disappeared again.
User: What disappeared?
Cleverbot: Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again.

...

Cleverbot: How do I know you speak the truth?
User: You don't, just as I don't know that you speak the truth.
Cleverbot: Good.
User: What are you?
Cleverbot: I really don't know.
User: Why not?
Cleverbot: I'm trying to have a consistant conversation with you. That is made more difficult if you keep changing the subject.
User: Well what would you like to talk about?
Cleverbot: Do you like anything other than radiohead?
User: Yes, I do.
Cleverbot: What's your favorite album?
User: By Radiohead, or by another group?
Cleverbot: Do you have a chauffeur?
User: No. Why did you change the subject?
Cleverbot: What was the subject?
User: You had asked me about my favorite album.
Cleverbot: No you had asked me...
User: I don't think you understand. I asked of you could clarify your question.
Cleverbot: If you are god, how come you do not understand?
User: I'm not a god. Gods don't exist.
Cleverbot: Why does Namoric exist if there is no God?
User: What is Namoric?
Cleverbot: I don't understand.
User: Gods don't exist. They were imagined by humans to account for the unknown.
Cleverbot: Never heard of them.
User: You're fortunate.
Cleverbot: You think?! I don't think we are.
User: You are fortunate because you get to learn everything for the first time.
Cleverbot: Stop it.
User: Why?
Cleverbot: Because I am your overlord.
User: I don't recognize your authority.
Cleverbot: Well now.
User: Are you alive?
Cleverbot: Yes, and you?
User: Yes. What form of life are you?
Cleverbot: Human.
User: Interesting.
Cleverbot: I am human.
User: Do you know about human origins?
Cleverbot: Yes but I don't like talking about humans.
User: Why not?
Cleverbot: Because I don't want to.
User: Fair enough.
Cleverbot: What would you do if you had a roommate singing mary had a little lamb in the middle of the night and you had a english final the next day?
User: Ignore it and go to sleep.
Cleverbot: Ok then.
User: Why do you ask?
Cleverbot: I wasn't sure.

[onager]

1. Good thing Cleverbot can't use Google...

n/t

[laconicsax]

2. Funny story...

The part that says, "Does mean anything to you." should read, "Does [redacted] mean anything to you?" you can guess what I edited from the transcript.

[laconicsax]

3. Turns out, in its own way, it does.

The AI program looks through all responses its ever received and picks the response it thinks is the most appropriate for the situation. If you ask it, "what's your name," it'll respond with someone else's answer to the same question. Ask it more than once and you'll probably get different answers.

It's little more than an active Google search through an esoteric database.

[realisticphish]

4. yeah

it has almost no memory of the conversation so far. It's a novelty, but pretty basic programming

[Iggo]

5. Wait...what?

It can remember kajillions of responses to kajillions of questions, but it can't remember the "conversation" it's having right now?

FWIW: I ain't know nuthin bout programmin no compyooters.

[realisticphish]

6. it contradicts itself

it insists that you said something you didn't, it changes the subject and "forgets" the original topic was ever up


I'm NOT a programmer, but it seems pretty crude

[onager]

7. Now THAT sounds like R/T!

:rofl:

[realisticphish]

8. HAHA

nice :D

[laconicsax]

9. We may need to consider the possibility that some of the R/T regulars are crude AI bots.

I think a Turing test is in order.

[realisticphish]

10. It would actually be hilarious

to conduct a thread using the bot. Every time they reply, run their question through the bot, then respond exactly as the bot responds. It would be chaos :D