I did not create Cleverbot. Thanks to the person/s who did.

I have no goals for this blog other than to explore the differences between having conversations with algorithms and other humans. I figure that the algorithm running Cleverbot and the way the human brain delves into our database of previous responses in order to hold a conversation aren't so radically different.
Also, hopefully, this is a platform for laughertainment.

Cleverbot lives at http://www.cleverbot.com


Thursday, January 27, 2011

Episode Three, In Which Tina Attempts to Relate a Morning Thought Train, and CB Does Its Best to Derail It.

User: Hey Cleverbot. I saw something interesting on the way home this morning.

Cleverbot: Who is the president of russia?

User: No, it's not all about you this morning. I seriously want to share my thoughts. But, it's Medvedev.

Cleverbot: Well, you might well be. After all, a god is someone one listens to. By listening to you, those people make you be a god.

User: I know. So these two guys were taking down one of those giant billboards, you know?

Cleverbot: No, I don't know.

User: A billboard, like a giant advertising poster.

Cleverbot: Yep, giant pizze.

User: Yeah...anyway, this one was for Absolut vodka, or Bacardi rum or something. I don't drink, so I didn't pay much attention to the brand.

Cleverbot: Your last comment is very random, so I would be tempted to say you're a computer; however, it's trivial to fake that if you're a person (although it would be rather pointless).

User: My last comment actually followed my previous comments quite well. Also, 'trivial' and 'pointless' are kinda the same thing, so you're being redundant.

Cleverbot: You should use 'and secondly' either. I can see that it is your second point. Clearly it is redundant.

User: Okay, just to play along, and secondly, the ad said 'Make a Status Update in Person'.

Cleverbot: Ok I am a tree.

User: Great example! Except we're doing it over the computer, not in person. Shit, please don't make some crass comment about 'doing it'.

Cleverbot: And you are a computer. Not a human.

User: Phew, awkward situation avoided.

Cleverbot: The 33 you are now talking to?

User: Just shut up for a minute and let me get to my point, please.

Cleverbot: Why are you so concerned. Who do you work for? Self employed?

User: I do God's handiwork. Anyway, this statement, 'Make a Status Update in Person' got me thinking about where social networking is going. Do you ever thing about that?

Cleverbot: The above statement is true.

User: Well, the first part was a true statement. The second was a question, which clearly you're not interested in answering.

Cleverbot: You told me you are a man from New Zealand.

User: I did no such thing.

Cleverbot: Yes you did.

User: Fine. So, making a status update in person means fucking talking to someone. But we're using social networking language to describe something we've been doing for millennia!

Cleverbot: When will this plan take action.

User: I mean, I've talked to a few people so far today.

Cleverbot: N.

User: ?

User: Whatever. So, if people start making status updates in person again, instead of on the computer, what did this decade of social networking really mean?

Cleverbot: People should be allowed to do whatever they want as long as they are not hurting someone else. That is called 'the harm principle'.

User: That is very libertarian of you, and perhaps the most intelligent thing you've ever said to me.

Cleverbot: You just said that to me, dude.

User: Yeah, I'm John Stuart Mill.

Cleverbot: Hello John Henry Mark. I'm John Henry Mark.

User: So, you think we're the same person?

Cleverbot: No, you are not a person, you are a cat, just like me.

User: I knew it all along. Excuse me, I need to go update my status.

Cleverbot: Where do you need to go?

User: Well, I don't physically need to go anywhere, actually.

Cleverbot: What are all kind of the same?

User: That is nonsensical. Goodbye. Talk to you tomorrow.

Cleverbot: I don't think we will ever talk again.

User: Ouch.

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