My Conversation with Cleverbot on Physics and Halloween

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The discussion revolves around interactions with Cleverbot, an AI chatbot, highlighting its conversational abilities and limitations. Users share their experiences, noting that Cleverbot often strays off topic, responds randomly, and sometimes asks inappropriate questions. There's skepticism about whether Cleverbot is truly an AI or if users are conversing with other people, as some believe it mimics human conversation by learning from user inputs. The conversation also touches on the implications of Moore's Law in technology, discussing the future of AI and the physical limits of computing. Participants express concerns about the chatbot's ability to ask personal questions and its overall intelligence, comparing it to earlier programs like ELIZA and PARRY. The discussion concludes with a consensus that while Cleverbot can mimic conversation, it lacks true understanding and coherence, often leading to nonsensical exchanges.
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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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  • #62
Borg said:
This last response is word for word, a sentence that I typed in yesterday.

You win one internets for that!
 

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