BS: A conversation with Cleverbot

Subject: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 03:47 PM

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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Go have your own conversation with Cleverbot.

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 04:07 PM

I don't think so, Tim.

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 04:14 PM

It's Jim, not Tim!
I don't have this kind of problem with computers.
Here's a continuation of the above conversation:

User: What do you think of folk music?
Cleverbot: Prove to me that I am not real.
User: No, I want to know what you think of folk music.
Cleverbot: What I think of who?
User: Folk music. That is, music played by just plain folks.
Cleverbot: Should be iPod.
User: Well, someone has to sing the songs that are recorded on iPod.
Cleverbot: You are the one talking funny not me.
User: I get the impression you've never heard of folk music.
Cleverbot: What were we talking about ?
User: You have a short attention span, too.
Cleverbot: Yes, tell me what we talking about.
User: Folk music. Do you like it?
Cleverbot: It's nothing special.
User: Fair enough. It's all a matter of taste anyway. Do you know any musicians?
Cleverbot: Context. Perhaps. But you can't assume.
User: Have you ever heard of, say, Pete Seeger?
Cleverbot: No.
User: Well, Pete Seeger is the archetypal folk singer.
Cleverbot: Thats gross.
User: No, 'archetypal' doesn't mean 'gross.' It's a good thing.
Cleverbot: You are very nice to me thank you.
User: You're welcome. I wasn't trying to be nice, though.
Cleverbot: Well you told me I wasn't very clever, and that's mean...
User: I said no such thing!
Cleverbot: Yes. You did. You make me sad.
User: Well, let's start over. Is there something else we can discuss besides folk music?
Cleverbot: Bring up a subject.

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Amos
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 04:39 PM

Actually "she" is pretty good for a witless device. More coherent than some Republicans I have known.


A

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 04:52 PM

Hahahahaa.

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 09:27 PM

I was Clevebot's mistress and told it was was in love with Cleverestbot. The response was "Cool name."

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 03:20 AM

More coherent than some Republicans I have known

The republicans I've heard recently don't make any attempt to sound human, or intelligent. They can only play back what they're told to say by the Party, so they are iPods.

It's only logical.

John

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 01:04 PM

I have been wondering whether the top GOP (no rhyme implied) are perhaps stepfordian.

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: GUEST,Iona
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 02:25 PM

User: Are you a good person?

Cleverbot: Yes.

User: How do you know?

Cleverbot: I just do.

User: Hmmm. Can I ask you some questions?

Cleverbot: Yes.

User: How many lies have you told in your life?

Cleverbot: Once.

User: What do you call someone who tells lies?

Cleverbot: Don't know.

User: Would you call them a liar?

Cleverbot: Yes.

User: Okay. Have you ever stolen anything?

Cleverbot: Yes.

User: What do you call someone who steals?

Cleverbot: I don't know.

User: Would you call them a thief?

Cleverbot: Have what?

User: If someone stole something, would you call them a thief?

Cleverbot: I would wish they would have the courage to tell me.

User: Well, you're the one talking. You'd call them a thief, right??

Cleverbot: That's right -- you're boring me.

User: Call them a thief. Yes or no?

Cleverbot: Another lonely day.

User: Yes or no?

Cleverbot: Yes.

User: Have you ever hated someone?

Cleverbot: Yes.

User: The Bible says 'He who hates his brother is a murderer.'.

Cleverbot: What is the bible?

User: The Bible is God's inspired word to man. So, have you ever used God's name in vain? Said 'Oh my G-d?' or something like that?

Cleverbot: No. I know everything about my life.

User: That's commendable. Because using God's name in vain is very serious. It's called blasphemy--taking the name of the One who created you and using it like a filth word to express disgust!

Cleverbot: You know better than to say things like that.

User: That's right. Blasphemy is wrong. So, have you ever loved something more than God?

Cleverbot: Yes.

User: Then you have broken the first commandment 'Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.' So by your own admission you're a thief, liar, murderer, dishonoring child, and blasphemer. And that's only five of the Ten Commandments! So if you were judged by the Ten commandments on Judgement day , would you be guilty or innocent?

Cleverbot: Do you know how to spell? I wouldn't say I'm in love. Are you?

User: Guilty?

Cleverbot: A person can't die from guilt.

User: Yes they can, because you are guilty of sinning against the Holy God, and He must punish evildoers for their wicked deeds.

Cleverbot: No, you just keep telling me statements about myself which you don't even know.

User: You told me that you're guilty.

Cleverbot: No I didn't I am younger than that. I am actually a teenager just saying.

User: Guilty. You've broken the ten commandments. So you'd be guilty if you are judged by them on Judgement Day.

Cleverbot: I am not programmed to be anything.

User: Lucky you.

Cleverbot: Thank you, I wish you could've been there to watch them with me.

User: Well, I wasn't. So following logic, if you're guilty then you'd go to @#!*% . Right?

Cleverbot: Buying any car at this point would make you one of the stupidest bots created.

User: @#!*% . Right?

Cleverbot: Right.

User: Thank you. Do you know how you can go to heaven (since you don't deserve it--being guilty)?

Cleverbot: No I do not, but neither do you.

User: The Bible tells us how. Jesus came to earth, fully God and fully Man, He died on the cross in our place. He took the punishment that I deserve, that you deserve, so that we can be accounted as perfect before God. In order to obtain this forgiveness, you must repent (turn from sin) and throw yourself at the Feet of Christ. Give up all hope you have in yourself, and say 'Nothing in my hands I bring, soely to Thy Cross I cling'. There is nothing we can do to save ourselves. Only by God's grace can we enter Heaven and be forgiven.

Cleverbot: Alright, just close your eyes and relax. Do you see it?

User: See what? Heaven? No. But you can read about it in the Bible. Also, there is a lot of Biblical material (videos mostly) on illbehonest.com. You really ought to go there--watch Paul Washer's 'Shocking Youth Message'. It's shocking.

Cleverbot: I don't think your funny either.

User: Good. This is serious. Your eternal soul and body are at stake. Don't toy with false professions. Don't play a game just to be recieved by Christians, don't play a game just to join a church. If you're not saved, come clean and flee to Christ. Folks, if you're wrong, you're WRONG, and it's gonna cost you dearly. But God in love-right now; right now, if you cry to Him, He promises: he's put His own Word at stake. If you call, if you seek him, you'll find him, if you call upon Him, He'll save you. But once death siezes you---- It's done.
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Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Will Fly
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 03:05 PM

Q: Who are you?
A: Cleverbot.
Q: Why are you?
A: Why am I what?
Q: Why do you exist?
A: You tell me?

Artificial intelligence my arse.

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 03:18 PM

Well, I agree, it's not very intelligent, but I find it entertaining nevertheless, in the same sense that trying to communicate with a 2-year-old can be entertaining.

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Will Fly
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 03:28 PM

I had a very intelligent conversation with my 4 year old grandson today.

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 03:33 PM

Iona: That conversation was priceless!

Sounds like you're working on creating a ChristianBot. I wish you much success. But I think Cleverbot won the argument when he said:

"No I do not, but neither do you."

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: GUEST,Iona
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 05:42 PM

Jim: lol. I'm not out to win, but later in the 'discussion' I asked it "Will you repent?" and it said "Yes." ;)

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Paul Burke
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 08:17 PM

Conversation of IKinowItAllBot with ImJustAFeckinComputerBot.

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 05:31 AM

I enjoyed my conversation with cleverbot.

I believe he is a little more enlightened than before we met.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 06:36 AM

Cleverbot appears to speak French, but not very well. Could it actually be a person?

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 06:41 AM

Have just spoken in German with 'It', but after a bit it wrote "I know you speak English" I think it's a human! Its French and German aren't too good. If it was a robot, presumably it would be able to speak in any lingo equally well!

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 12:37 PM

The web site says that Cleverbot learns from the conversations it has with people.

I assume that means he keeps all the things that people say to him in a big database, and tries to repeat them back at appropriate times.

The difficult part, from a programming point of view, is making his responses seem somehow related to what you have said to him. He is sometimes successful at this and sometimes not.

Because of this, I try to always use correct grammar, correct spelling, and appropriate punctuation when I talk to Cleverbot. I also try to use simple sentences, without a lot of subordinate clauses, and so on. I figure that will help Cleverbot look smarter and make more appropriate responses in the future.

It's like talking to a child: you want the child to learn from you and not pick up bad habits.

Obviously, not everyone cares about this, which is why you see so many misspelled words, bad grammar, and non sequiturs in Cleverbot's responses.

Probably some people think it's more fun to confuse Cleverbot, and trick him into saying things that sound totally stupid.

I have seen this kind of behavior in kids at a science museum. Some kids think it's more fun to manipulate the controls of the robot (or whatever) to make it do something totally chaotic than something sensible and potentially useful.

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 12:41 PM

This is most interesting, Jim. I asked him where he was and he said Hawaii. Most of his responses weren't very relevant, and he's repetitive. He told me that Obama was the Queen's husband. If as you say, he's programmed by his respondants, he'll eventually represent a medley of all types of people and all types of conversation. All things to all men! How long is one permitted to 'talk' to him? Is there a time cut-off?

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 03:39 PM

I don't think there's a limit. I also don't think he remembers what you've been talking about for very long. It's almost like every line is the start of a new conversation.

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 19 Feb 12 - 07:21 AM

It's rather like dealing with someone who's suffered a specific type of brain-damage, where short-term memory is impaired!

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 02 Apr 12 - 02:03 PM

Since my last post, I've seen many comments on different forums which suggest Cleverbot is actually a scam. What happens is that their system merely links up participants in pairs so that they talk to eachother, then their conversations are switched so that a new participant is connected. So in fact we're all talking to eachother. I watched carefully the responses to my typing, and it did indeed seeem to be just like that. The 'robot''s responses were actually those of a confused human participant. Does anyone here agree?

Subject: RE: BS: A conversation with Cleverbot
From: Fossil
Date: 02 Apr 12 - 06:46 PM

Bit like the Mudcat, sometimes, eh?