My Conversation with Cleverbot on Physics and Halloween

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My impression is that Cleverbot seems pretty legit. I think it's randomness could be derived from previous users being random, changing topics on a whim. The bot then follows suit.

I asked Cleverbot "What is Newton's second law of motion" a number of times, and twice in a time span of over an hour, in two different sessions, the response was pretty much the same, saying something to the effect of "Doesn't it have something to do with Force?" After I agreed, the immediate next response was "And Impulse is mass times velocity." Which of course is wrong, but the point is it gave me the same answers twice, even repeating its mistake. That's pretty bot like.

The creator, Rollo Carpenter, won the annual Loebner prize in 2005 and 2006, and is one of the finalists for this year's competition in October. That adds some credibility.

http://loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html"

 

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This last response is word for word, a sentence that I typed in yesterday.

You win one internets for that!