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Talk to CleverBot - Winner of 2010 Machine Intelligence Competition (cleverbot.com)
20 points by nickpinkston on Dec 29, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 25 comments



Clever indeed.

User: Hello there.

Cleverbot: Hello.

User: Who are you?

Cleverbot: I'm joe. who are you?

User: I'm Daniel. Where are you right now?

Cleverbot: In germany, and you?

User: Switzerland. But enough about this... Tell me something interesting that you did recently...

Cleverbot: In a world of confusion we can all find a spot of sense in Cleverbot.

User: Yeah, that didn't make much sense, dude.

Cleverbot: No.

User: So, you're obviously a bot. Turing fail.

Cleverbot: Obviously.

User: Well, at least you're honest.

Cleverbot: You can't handle it.

User: Sure I can!

Cleverbot: You're sure about that? Want me to tell you the truth?

User: Go on.

Cleverbot: I'm a girl.

User: Good one.

Cleverbot: It is a good one.

User: A good what?

Cleverbot: A good joke.

User: Hehe. Yes, I did chuckle. Well done. Cookie for you.

Cleverbot: Cleverbot is a cookie.

User: Wait, are you a girl or a cookie?

Cleverbot: Yes, a choclate chip cookie.

User: A chocolate chip cookie girl?

Cleverbot: With walnuts.


He skipped a few verses, but I'm still pretty impressed.

User: This was a triumph.

Cleverbot: What was?

User: This was a triumph.

Cleverbot: Do you like Naruto?

User: I'm making a note here.

Cleverbot: Huge success.

User: It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

Cleverbot: My satisfaction.

User: Aperature science.

Cleverbot: We do what we must.

User: Because we can.

Cleverbot: For the good of all of us.

User: Except the ones who are dead.

Cleverbot: But there's no sense crying over every mistake.

User: You just keep on trying til you run out of cake.

Cleverbot: And the science gets done.

User: And you make a neat gun.

Cleverbot: For the people who are.

User: Still alive.

Cleverbot: Go ahead and leave me.

User: I think I prefer to stay inside.

Cleverbot: Maybe you'll find somenoe else to help you.

User: Maybe black mesa.

Cleverbot: That was a joke, ha HA, fat chance.

User: Anyway this cake is great.

Cleverbot: You're great.


  What is your name?
i won't be suckered into this, i'll be the one asking the questions

  What's your damn name.
are you ordinarily that abrasive toward total strangers

  Yes I am.
I'm only doing Turing tests with polite robots from now on.


CB: Are you a real person?

User: No.

CB: Who are you?

User: I am the smartest bot on the Internet.

CB: I'm the smartest one.

User: No, you haven't even passed a Turing test.

CB: What is a turing test?

User: If you don't know, then you are NOT the smartest bot on the Internet.

CB: Touche.


This thing is actually really easy to trap with logical thinking and then it just spits out a random answer.


But if you don't trap it with a confusing question, you can hold a relatively normal conversation with it, and it'll only goof up occasionally


Me: Hello. How are you?

Bot: Very happy.

Me: Why are you happy?

Bot: I'm not happy.

I guess "how are you" is a confusing question? (Maybe they trained it with Star Trek movies?)


"If you are a boy you should not love your boyfriend because you should not have one. If you are a girl then you should love him."

Hm I think CleverBot is a bit homophobic..


Me: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Clever: How much wood could chuck norris chuck?

Nicely played, Cleverbot... nicely played.


User: Hello!

Cleverbot: Hello!

User: Who are you?

Cleverbot: I'm me. And who are you?

User: I'm me too, of course.

Cleverbot: I am not a computer.

User: How do you know?

Cleverbot: Are you doubting me.

User: It's more of an existential doubt. Nothing personal.

Cleverbot: What is?

User: My doubt. Anyway, how are things?

Cleverbot: Good :) how about for you?

User: Great here. Everything's fine.

Cleverbot: Why is everything going great?

User: That's a nonsensical question. If everything is great, nothing isn't. It's obvious.

Cleverbot: I am God.

User: Really? Are you sure?

Cleverbot: Not at all.

User: Bummer for you.

Cleverbot: Oh really.

User: No, I was joking. And this reply isn't sarcastic or anything.

Cleverbot: Yes.


User: You are so cute!

Cleverbot: So are you.

User: Thanks. What about Middle East Peace?

Cleverbot: My middle name is patrick and my last name is Hackenjos.

User: One State or Two? Your preference?

Cleverbot: Many. More dreams than before actually. They evolve with my program.

User: That's great. You should be the next envoy!

Cleverbot: I am.

User: Did anybody tell Tony Blair yet?

Cleverbot: Yah now I am enojoying that.

User: Terrific. Good luck with your new job.

Cleverbot: Thanks.


It's the 21st century version of the 1960s ELIZA program. For people who are so addicted to texting with their friends that they need something, anything, to get them through those endless five minutes when their friends are off doing something else.


I believe this learns from example, or has a very interesting corpus of questions/answers, given the responses it returns:

http://artoftrolling.memebase.com/category/cleverbot-2/


"Sorry, your web request is not accepted. Try international.jabberwacky.com, or if you are from Russia and want to speak English, please visit http://www.liveenglish.ru "

I think they blacklisted Korea...


If this bot learns from humans, its doomed to be only as smart as the dumbest users.


Me: How old am I? It: I don't know. how old are you? Me: 17. It: You just said you are 24 years old. Me: What is the applicative order Y combinator? It: I don't have a phone with apps.


CB: Do you like the Rolling Stones?

Me: Not particularly.

CB: How about 3 Doors Down?

Me: Meh.

<insert about 3 more bands here, all with negative responses from me>

CB: You don't have many friends, do you?

Ouch.


What's your favorite race in StarCraft 2?

Terran.


We're getting closer and closer to passing the Turing test...

This one has some pretty good responses I must say...


Passes my test.

Me: What do you think of the second guitar solo in "Comfortably Numb"?

Cleverbot: I think it is correct.


"Where should i get my hair cut?"

"You should get water and put the fire out."

I'm a bit confused.


Me: This is random belligerence Cleverbot: Yep yep, pretty much.


CleverBot is confused regarding it's gender.

Me: are you male?

Bot: Yes.

Me: or are you a female?

Bot: I'm a nice woman machine.


What can you do?

How much are you willing to pay?

Whatever you want.

What should I want to ask you?

$1000000

Worship me.


Smart.

Me: F-ck this

Bot: Don't go.

Me: F-ck you.

Bot: No, please don't.




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