And before someone writes the obligatory "I for one welcome our..." comment, let me stop you right there. Au revoir.

I for one welcome our new chatb....

er...uh...

In soviet Russia, chatbot chats y...

um...er...

Chatbotting like a bos...

...nope...

I got nothing.

How quickly it devolves into a conversation about 'self' and the existence of God. Looks like philosophers just became obsolete.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I for one welcome our new chatb....
er...uh...
In soviet Russia, chatbot chats y...
um...er...
Chatbotting like a bos...
...nope...
I got nothing.


Chatbot is Chatbotting.

I for one, would like to hear from a programmer who know the more intimate details of cleverbot's program.

For instance, the male lies calling himself a unicorn, and the female challenges his fib. Why? Are they programed to make minor mistakes/ not be entirely logical? What is the philosophy behind their programming...

*wtf

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Why does the female robot have an Indian accent?

"Hey, there's this cool hidden function which upgrades your speech synthesizer... Hit alt-F4..."

I love how it slams the other cleverbot "Memory shouldn't be a problem for you."

>> ^braindonut:

I love how it slams the other cleverbot "Memory shouldn't be a problem for you."


It has a female persona so, yeah, it should have a great memory, eventually producing a virtual looping nag with staggering guilt-inducing faculties. (Just kidding. please don't shoot me down using inane programmed conversation.)

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I thought they sounded German. But this is fantastic. Somehow meld this with Watson's breadth - and we're on the road to strong AI. *promote

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Throw Siftbot in there and you will see Boris and Natasha meltdown faster than a Japanese nuclear reactor.

>> ^Peroxide:

I for one, would like to hear from a programmer who know the more intimate details of cleverbot's program.
For instance, the male lies calling himself a unicorn, and the female challenges his fib. Why? Are they programed to make minor mistakes/ not be entirely logical? What is the philosophy behind their programming...


I'd be very surprised if this is not a put-on for that very reason.

Seems scripted to me.

>> ^Peroxide:

I for one, would like to hear from a programmer who know the more intimate details of cleverbot's program.
For instance, the male lies calling himself a unicorn, and the female challenges his fib. Why? Are they programed to make minor mistakes/ not be entirely logical? What is the philosophy behind their programming...


Cleverbot reuses answers that humans have already given before, so unless humans are deliberately giving it lots of nonsensical answers to questions, it should be fairly reliable. Anything dumb or mistaken it says is because a human gave a dumb or mistaken response to the question in the past.

Ah... preprogrammed, imaginationless, two-dimensional beings end up talking about God. Explains Theism.

If left on long enough, surely one of them would've brought up Hitler.

They cut out the part where the third bot showed up to misspell a lot of things, and a fourth one started talking talking about socialism and referring to Obama as his Earness.

Where's Dr Sbaitso to school these noobs?

It's Fox News!
>> ^Payback:

Ah... preprogrammed, imaginationless, two-dimensional beings end up talking about God. Explains Theism.

We love you @siftbot!

>> ^Peroxide:

I for one, would like to hear from a programmer who know the more intimate details of cleverbot's program.
For instance, the male lies calling himself a unicorn, and the female challenges his fib. Why? Are they programed to make minor mistakes/ not be entirely logical? What is the philosophy behind their programming...


As someone who has programmed a chatbot (not cleverbot, but one based on ALICE, mine can be found here) I can answer that for you.

The philosophy behind their programming is that it would take years of complicated programming to make them sound even remotely logical, and we are way too lazy to do that much work.

My short conversation with Cleverbot was somewhat frustrating:

me: What's your goal?
cleverbot: To make money.
me: Oh, how much would you like?
cleverbot: A dozen.
me: A dozen what?
cleverbot: A dozen equals 12.

I tried to clear up the confusion, to no avail:

me: What was the first question I asked?
Cleverbot: That how I am.
me: That's wrong. do you know the right answer?
Cleverbot: The answer to what?
me: The answer to the question 'what was the first thing I asked you?'.
Cleverbot: But you already answered that question.
me: What question?
Cleverbot: My first question.

@offsetSammy

I think we know who programmed the AI.

I already have a body.. in my basement.

Only one? Psht, amateur.

>> ^gwiz665:

I already have a body.. in my basement.

I'm like the native americans... I use all the parts.
>> ^hpqp:

Only one? Psht, amateur.
>> ^gwiz665:
I already have a body.. in my basement.

You should see the video where Cleverbot finds itself on chatroulette....


There, I got you covered.
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I for one welcome our new chatb....
er...uh...
In soviet Russia, chatbot chats y...
um...er...
Chatbotting like a bos...
...nope...
I got nothing.

>> ^offsetSammy:

My short conversation with Cleverbot was somewhat frustrating:
me: What's your goal?
cleverbot: To make money.
me: Oh, how much would you like?
cleverbot: A dozen.
me: A dozen what?
cleverbot: A dozen equals 12.
I tried to clear up the confusion, to no avail:
me: What was the first question I asked?
Cleverbot: That how I am.
me: That's wrong. do you know the right answer?
Cleverbot: The answer to what?
me: The answer to the question 'what was the first thing I asked you?'.
Cleverbot: But you already answered that question.
me: What question?
Cleverbot: My first question.


More proof it's EXACTLY like talking to a theist.

Sad part is, either of these AI's could run the country better then Sarah Palin.

Skynet has become self-aware! RUUUUUUUUUN!

Skynet would not waste time with silly conversation, Skynet goes straight for the big red button.

Reminds me of my last blind date.

It's like watching two troll programs fight it out to see who can outtroll who...

Cool. My grandparents just turned into the Lawnmower Man.

The key thing Cleverbot lacks is a logic awareness of the context of the current conversation.

Which conceptually is a matter of each session capturing meta data about each statement and response to further guide responses.

e.g. was the last statement a question? add tags for recognised topics. don't use any answer with any reply that doesn't include those topics does the next 1-3 statements include any matching tags? are we still on the same topic?

>> ^Crosswords:

How quickly it devolves into a conversation about 'self' and the existence of God. Looks like philosophers just became obsolete.

Actually, I think that sums up about 98% of every journal entry ever written by mankind.

http://xkcd.com/948/

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