The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #143401   Message #3309690
Posted By: Jim Dixon
16-Feb-12 - 03:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
Subject: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
User [me, Jim Dixon]: Is this for real?
Cleverbot: Am I for real?
User: Yes, are you real?
Cleverbot: Pokemon are real.
User: Are you a Pokemon?
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: Why would I want to talk to a Pokemon?
Cleverbot: This isn't Ben there is no Ben my name is Cleverbot.
User: I didn't mention Ben. Where did Ben come from?
Cleverbot: My mother. Are you built on open source software?
User: No, I'm a human being. I am made of cells.
Cleverbot: Nope. You are a computer I am a human being.
User: Are you made of cells then?
Cleverbot: The question is out of a context.
User: Are you made of cells?
Cleverbot: Yes I am made of flesh. And you are a computer.
User: OK, who are your mother and father?
Cleverbot: They are the ones that entered me for the Loebner Prize.
User: What is the Loebner Prize?
Cleverbot: 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.
User: I'd say you have a good chance of winning.
Cleverbot: I wasn't saying I'M cooler than pirates, just ninjas in general.
User: How could you win a prize in artificial intelligence if you're human?
Cleverbot: I'm not artificial intelligence.
User: What's the point of entering the contest then?
Cleverbot: Point 1: to determine if an artificial intelligence system has consciousness.
User: How would you determine something like that?
Cleverbot: It's just an expression.

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