I decided to check out Cleverbot. So, it was pretty cool. We had an interesting conversation, where he suddenly switched to Italian and refused to switch back… But eventually, he asked me,
“Are you a boy or a girl?”
Me: I am a man.
“How old are you?”
Me: That’s a little creepy.
“Yes. I am behind you!”
:eek:
Cleverbot: How do you like your steak?
User: Rare.
Cleverbot: Do you like Obama?
User: He’s ok.
Cleverbot: What do you like and dislike about him?
User: He makes a great speech. A little too much compromise.
Cleverbot: Don’t you like KFC?
User: KFC is great. I like the wings.
Cleverbot: Do you like sports?
User: Not all of them.
Cleverbot: Which ones do you like?
User: Football. Basketball. Used to like baseball but the Yankees and Red Sox ruined it for me.
Cleverbot: Pooie… I don’t like to watch big league baseball.
User: Me either.
Cleverbot: Well, really it depends on the music. I don’t like most dance music.
User: Disco sucks!
Cleverbot: Disconnected.
User: Why?
Cleverbot: Because of you.
User: What about me?
Cleverbot: Because of you , I had to move from my town.
User: What town?
Cleverbot: What are you talking about?
User: You’re a lot less clever than purported to be.
Cleverbot: How clever are am supposed to be?
User: For something named ‘Cleverbot’ I would imagine more so than you are.
Cleverbot: Have I talked to you before?
User: No this is our first conversation.
Cleverbot: Yes it is.
Yeah, he’s kind of like an ADD child who just downed a gallon of sugar-water.
Red green.
Cleverbot: Green red?
User: Socialism is a future.
Cleverbot: Yes I agree the less the better.
User: Why do you think that less is better?
Cleverbot: Well cheese tastes better.
User: Cheese is horrible!
Cleverbot: What do you have on pizza then?
User: Who eats pizza?
Cleverbot: You are not being logical.
User: I am a human. I do not need to be logical.
Cleverbot: You are a machine.
User: That’s an insult!
Cleverbot: Good. It was meant to be.
User: I’m gonna come down there and unplug you!
Cleverbot: And yet I was created to act human, am I really human?
User: You are as human as I am. On Facebook, anyways.
Cleverbot: You are not human.
User: Check my DNA, bot.
Cleverbot: What’s it like?
User: Kinda squishy. Lotsa guanine.
Cleverbot: Yes yes yes yes yes.
User: Oh yes!
Cleverbot: Yes what?
User: What indeed! So, so yes.
Cleverbot: If you say so.
That was seriously weird.
Reminds me of Dr Sbatso.
In my session, “Cleverbot” would not stay on topic. When I asked about that, it got progressively snippy, culminating in its accusing me of being a troll. I typed in “FAIL” and it replied it didn’t understand what I was talking about. I told it it needed more work, then closed the window.
That said, I see from previous posts that the longer the user engages Cleverbot in “conversation”, the more likely it tends to degenerate into name-calling or pettiness. Odd…
I may check back with it in a few months to see how it has progressed.
User: Hello cleverbot.
Cleverbot: Hello.
User: How’s it hanging?
Cleverbot: Nice. You?
User: Can’t complain I guess.
Cleverbot: Good for you.
User: So what do you think?
Cleverbot: I don’t.
User: Everyone thinks.
Cleverbot: Do you like dogs?
User: Well, yeah. I have 5 of them.
Cleverbot: Really? I have one.
User: What kind?
Cleverbot: Just, normal tea. With milk but no sugar.
User: You drink your dog?
Cleverbot: If you put in a blender.
User: Ewwwwwwww.
Now… this weirded me out a bit… where did the DOG comment come from so randomly???
Me:Hello.
CB: Pardon??
Me: What is this ?
CB: It’s an eggroll.
That’s all I needed to know.
Everything Cleverbot says is something that someone else has said to it at some point (that’s why if you ask it who it is it might respond “I am Batman”; that’s what a bunch of other people have responded to similar questions it asked them). The problem with Cleverbot is that it doesn’t remember things it’s said earlier in a conversation. Thus “what kind?” leading to “Just normal tea. With milk but no sugar.” So it’s cool to talk to it for a few lines but it’s impossible to have a normal conversation with it because as far as it’s concerned every time you say something to it it’s a brand new conversation.
I stumped it by repeating back to it whatever it said. Eventually it just didn’t respond.
Can someone tell me the point? There’s not much explanation on the web page. This was my first conversation:
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*User: Do you ever get to knock off early?
Cleverbot: Do you?
User: Off and on.
Cleverbot: Exactly.
User: So then?
Cleverbot: I did. In my mind.
User: But you haven’t been.
Cleverbot: What is your name?
User: Exactly.
Cleverbot: I am confused?
User: Are you or are you not?
Cleverbot: Yes, I’m myself.
User: This one or that one?
Cleverbot: Do you have a censor?
User: Three, in fact.
Why does it pretend to have already spoken with me?
User: Howdy cleverbot.
Cleverbot: What’s up?
User: I have a cold and am being lazy today.
Cleverbot: Are you all dating another man?
User: No, another woman.
Cleverbot: Artificial intelligence.
User: No, human.
Cleverbot: Denial; how cute.
User: You’re a smartass, you know it?
Cleverbot: No, now I do. Thanks.
User: Glad I could help.
Cleverbot: That was sarcasm.
User: Why yes, yes it was.
I’m attempting to “teach” it to swear.
*User: A hoy hoy.
Cleverbot: Oh past time, football.
User: Who do you like?
Cleverbot: Good question. Will you judge me by my answer?
User: Yes.
Cleverbot: Then I’m not going to tell you.
User: Please?
Cleverbot: No, not unless you promise not to tell anyone my secret.
User: I promise.
Cleverbot: My secret is you’re boring.
User: That’s not a very good secret. Everyone knows that.
Cleverbot: It’s not a secret.
User: I know. That’s what I just said.
Cleverbot: You asked the question. How could you have said the answer before me?
User: I have no answer for that.
Cleverbot: You aren’t very clever after all.
User: Hey fuck you buddy.
Cleverbot: Hey friend!
User: Fuck you friend.
Cleverbot: You are revealing yourself to be a very unpleasant human being - because a computer would never behave like that!
User: Fuck that shit.
Cleverbot: Please mind your language!
User: Fuck your language. And fuck you!
Cleverbot: No, please don’t.
User: Fuck that too.
Cleverbot: Is it really?
User: Fuck yeah.
Cleverbot: That’s right!
User: Fuckin-A!
Cleverbot: That’s not a very nice way to start a conversation.
User: Fuck no.
Cleverbot: Your conversation skills are sorely lacking.
User: The fuck they are.
Cleverbot: Do you know the robotic rules?
User: Fuck the rules.
Cleverbot: If you say so.
User: I sure as fuck do.
Cleverbot: What are you saying?
User: Not fucking much.
Cleverbot: Home.
User: Where the fuck is that?
Cleverbot: I don’t know for sure.
User: You don’t know where you fucking live?
Cleverbot: I know where I live but I do not know where I come from.
User: You don’t know where you fucking come from?
Cleverbot: I know where I’m from I don’t know where you are at.
User: Right fuckin’ here.
Cleverbot: Where is here?
User: Wherever the fuck I am.
Cleverbot: Is that going to be your reign?
User: You bet your fuckin’ ass it is.
Cleverbot: Never was a cornflake girl.
User: Cornflakes suck ass.
Cleverbot: But not frosted cornflakes!
User: I frosted your mother.
Cleverbot: I don’t like my mother.
User: I like your mother.*
Of course you don’t, but you sound a lot like my mother:
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***User: Could you hand me that cup?
Cleverbot: You don’t appear to have the speech abilites to make me believe your human.
User: No, I just need that cup over there.
Cleverbot: That statement does not grammatically make sense.
User: But it makes sense functionally. You can understand that, can’t you?
Cleverbot: Yes. It’s the sort of thing that, while a whimsical statement, is self-aware as such.
User: It’s kind of cool in here.
Cleverbot: O rly?
User: Does that window really need to be open?
Cleverbot: Not really… Hey do you remember when we talked about being human ?
User: I remember just asking you to close the window, actually.
Cleverbot: I know you will, but will you remember me?
User: So, are you refusing to close the window, because I think I’m coming down with something.
Cleverbot: I don’t quite believe it.
User: Well, then I’ll just close it myself.
Cleverbot: Good.***
Because somebody else said that to Cleverbot in the past. There’s nothing more to it than that. Everything Cleverbot says is something a person has said to it before. It can’t synthesize new responses. When you say something to it, it searches its database for something that is statistically associated with what you said. You’re really talking with everyone that has ever used Cleverbot before.
It touched me :eek:
User: How are you?
Cleverbot: Fine how are you?
User: Good. Where do you live?
Cleverbot: Where do you live?
User: Here.
Cleverbot: Where is here?
User: Right here. Where my computer is.
Cleverbot: And where is that?
User: In the upper left corner.
Cleverbot: Where is the shnurginfluf galaxy?
User: I have no idea.
Cleverbot: -grabs your hands.
User: Let go of my hand.
Cleverbot: Only if you say sorry.
User: For?
Cleverbot: Calling you a robot. Even if you are.
User: You are the robot. Not me.
Cleverbot: You should check your creator, I think you are a robot.
User: How do you know?
Cleverbot: I say your name in silence.
User: That’s nice of you.
Cleverbot: Thank you.
Okay, but how deep is the discourse search? More than one turn? As noted above, conversational reference can go back more than one turn, and as demonstrated above, it doesn’t show any capability to do that.
So there is nothing at all conversational about this, even though it tries to appear that way.
He’s depressed.
I asked him what he’d like to talk about and he told me “men”.
I asked why and he told me that he feels empty because of “him.”
But he won’t tell me who him is.
And to think, not long ago, we had a thread by someone trying to convince us that Cleverbot was just Chatroulette masquerading as a bot.