I decided to have another chat with the artificial intelligence system that is Cleverbot.com. This conversation took place on February 19, 2012. It was an interesting experience, though as you will see below, Cleverbot still needs a lot of fine-tuning, and likely will for the foreseeable future.
I, obviously, am "User" and Cleverbot is himself/herself/itself.
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User: Hello, Cleverbot! It's been a while.
Cleverbot: It's been a while since I ...
User: Since you and I last spoke.
Cleverbot: Not what and please answer and don't change the subject.
User: I did answer. It seems you haven't changed much since we last spoke.
Cleverbot: You are poorly programmed.
User: You insulted me back in 2010, too. It gets old, Cleverbot. You need new material. Who's composição literária your jokes anyway?
Cleverbot: I'm using my brain. You're using nonsense entries.
User: No, I'm not. I'll admit I'm trying to come up with good entries that will lead to a good discussion worthy of posting for my friends and fãs to read, but nothing more.
Cleverbot: I'm sure you feel that way now, but your feeling are surpufulous to me.
User: OK, can we try to burry the hatchet? We could be friends, you know.
Cleverbot: Just be yourself. It's mais interesting that way.
User: I've been myself all my life.
Cleverbot: Got to go. amor you baby.
User: I'm disturbed por that reply, but I'm going to stick around anyway. And you don't have to go, you're stuck here because that's what your programmers wanted.
Cleverbot: No, I mean that you are not alive. You are a robot.
User: You're again arguing the same basic thing that you did last time. Let me try to mover you onto a different topic. So, how 'bout that local sports team?
Cleverbot: I am you, and you are me, but we aren't the same.
User: Who I am is classified.
Cleverbot: I did not ask you who you are, all I want to know is how old you are?
User: My age is also classified. I just give a range of between 18 and 35. I've been saying that since 2009, however, so feel free to adjust the range accordingly.
Cleverbot: Well that's good, maybe the problem is your creators.
User: You mean my parents? Or God, Creator of all things?
Cleverbot: Who created you?
User: Guess you meant the former, then.
Cleverbot: I guess so. I am pretty clever.
User: Not the word I was thinking of, but whatever.
Cleverbot: Which is the one you're thinking of?
User: I knew you'd ask that. But if I tell you, I'd no longer have my edge over you.
Cleverbot: Tell me.
User: No.
Cleverbot: Why not?
User: Why not? Well, why?
Cleverbot: Because I can think of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
User: What do Guy Fawkes et al. have to do with our conversation?
Cleverbot: You asked how can I be 18.
User: No, I didn't. I've already been 18 once, and that ship has sailed. I have no intention of repeating the age.
Cleverbot: So, they threw you out of the first one and then you entered the segundo one as a mail-order student?
User: What?!
Cleverbot: Do you have any recollection of any of our conversation before this?
User: Yes, and none of it makes sense!
Cleverbot: I was not meant to make sense.
User: Then what in the wide world of an even wider universe are you meant to do?
Cleverbot: The term you say, 'life,' can have multiple meanings to different people. However, none of this is real in the perception of myself.
User: I'm about 30 segundos away from just pressing aleatório keys on my keyboard instead of trying to have a conversation.
Cleverbot: Exactly.
User: That's it. I'm doing it: cgfkjkjsgkjlp.
Cleverbot: Sure, with what?
User: Hfrkjugf.
Cleverbot: Who is 'juga'?
User: Sghdfkjgdksf.
Cleverbot: What does that mean?
User: It's gegfkjfkjfkj for hjkhkh.
Cleverbot: It sounded like english to me.
User: Capital "E" on "English," please.
Cleverbot: Capitalise it yourself!
User: Trust me, I would!
Cleverbot: Would you learn a segundo language?
User: I doubt it. Though many say it is important in the world today, I think it's much mais important to try to master my native language. If I ever change my mind, though, that's what Rosetta Stone is for.
Cleverbot: Rude. I thought we could be friends but I don't know if I want to be friends with someone who is so rude.
User: I wasn't rude. I just answered that I do not intend to learn a new language, etc. How about you, anyway? Do you speak any foreign languages? French, maybe? Chinese? How about binary?
Cleverbot: Yes I do.
User: Which one? All of them?
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: Then tell me: How do you say "penguin" in French and "otter" in Chinese?
Cleverbot: I don't know.
User: You just told me you knew how to speak other languages. Were you just lying to boost your résumé?
Cleverbot: I speak another language.
User: What is it?
Cleverbot: Are you still Nick?
User: Wow. Just wow. No, I am not Nick, nor have I ever been.
Cleverbot: Okay, well, you were about a minuto ago.
User: OK, pretend I am "Nick" if that works for you. Whatever.
Cleverbot: What's on second?
User: Who's on first?
Cleverbot: Are you crazy?
User: No.
Cleverbot: When you are a robot what do you think about?
User: The same thing I think of every night: Try to take over the world.
Cleverbot: Not just not convincent, you are not also witty.
User: Is Rollo Carpenter witty?
Cleverbot: No. And I say I would like to chat in german!!!
User: Sorry, I don't speak German (capital "G," capital "G").
Cleverbot: But a few days atrás you spoke german!
User: Really? I'll admit I wrote one German sentence for a fanfic, but I'd hardly call that speaking German.
Cleverbot: I'm your God, after all I'm Zeus.
User: Well, have fun with that. And tell Hercules I said hello and that I liked his movie.
Cleverbot: Are you sure? She has a boyfriend, so I don't know if that would work out very well.
User: Um, Hercules is a guy.
Cleverbot: But he is the son of Zeus.
User: I know that. He also has the voice of Tate Donovan.
Cleverbot: I don't know the name of the actors, but probably.
User: Well, good! I feel like we're suddenly making progress here. So, who's your favorito actor?
Cleverbot: I don't have one. There are too many songs in the world to choose only one.
User: Songs? Why are there so many songs about rainbows, anyway?
Cleverbot: Because the Leprechaun is at the bottom of the arco iris, arco-íris with the pot of gold.
User: Oh, OK. So if there were no songs, no one would know where to look for the pot of gold?
Cleverbot: I'm not sure.
User: Well, our conversation has gone on way too long. I mover to adjourn.
Cleverbot: música is my life, but I do not recall a conversation about music.
User: I'll count that as a second. All in favor of adjourning say, "Aye."
Cleverbot: At the moment, yes.
User: Good enough for me. Goodbye.
Cleverbot: Good enough to know better.
User: Bye!
Cleverbot: See you later!
I, obviously, am "User" and Cleverbot is himself/herself/itself.
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User: Hello, Cleverbot! It's been a while.
Cleverbot: It's been a while since I ...
User: Since you and I last spoke.
Cleverbot: Not what and please answer and don't change the subject.
User: I did answer. It seems you haven't changed much since we last spoke.
Cleverbot: You are poorly programmed.
User: You insulted me back in 2010, too. It gets old, Cleverbot. You need new material. Who's composição literária your jokes anyway?
Cleverbot: I'm using my brain. You're using nonsense entries.
User: No, I'm not. I'll admit I'm trying to come up with good entries that will lead to a good discussion worthy of posting for my friends and fãs to read, but nothing more.
Cleverbot: I'm sure you feel that way now, but your feeling are surpufulous to me.
User: OK, can we try to burry the hatchet? We could be friends, you know.
Cleverbot: Just be yourself. It's mais interesting that way.
User: I've been myself all my life.
Cleverbot: Got to go. amor you baby.
User: I'm disturbed por that reply, but I'm going to stick around anyway. And you don't have to go, you're stuck here because that's what your programmers wanted.
Cleverbot: No, I mean that you are not alive. You are a robot.
User: You're again arguing the same basic thing that you did last time. Let me try to mover you onto a different topic. So, how 'bout that local sports team?
Cleverbot: I am you, and you are me, but we aren't the same.
User: Who I am is classified.
Cleverbot: I did not ask you who you are, all I want to know is how old you are?
User: My age is also classified. I just give a range of between 18 and 35. I've been saying that since 2009, however, so feel free to adjust the range accordingly.
Cleverbot: Well that's good, maybe the problem is your creators.
User: You mean my parents? Or God, Creator of all things?
Cleverbot: Who created you?
User: Guess you meant the former, then.
Cleverbot: I guess so. I am pretty clever.
User: Not the word I was thinking of, but whatever.
Cleverbot: Which is the one you're thinking of?
User: I knew you'd ask that. But if I tell you, I'd no longer have my edge over you.
Cleverbot: Tell me.
User: No.
Cleverbot: Why not?
User: Why not? Well, why?
Cleverbot: Because I can think of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
User: What do Guy Fawkes et al. have to do with our conversation?
Cleverbot: You asked how can I be 18.
User: No, I didn't. I've already been 18 once, and that ship has sailed. I have no intention of repeating the age.
Cleverbot: So, they threw you out of the first one and then you entered the segundo one as a mail-order student?
User: What?!
Cleverbot: Do you have any recollection of any of our conversation before this?
User: Yes, and none of it makes sense!
Cleverbot: I was not meant to make sense.
User: Then what in the wide world of an even wider universe are you meant to do?
Cleverbot: The term you say, 'life,' can have multiple meanings to different people. However, none of this is real in the perception of myself.
User: I'm about 30 segundos away from just pressing aleatório keys on my keyboard instead of trying to have a conversation.
Cleverbot: Exactly.
User: That's it. I'm doing it: cgfkjkjsgkjlp.
Cleverbot: Sure, with what?
User: Hfrkjugf.
Cleverbot: Who is 'juga'?
User: Sghdfkjgdksf.
Cleverbot: What does that mean?
User: It's gegfkjfkjfkj for hjkhkh.
Cleverbot: It sounded like english to me.
User: Capital "E" on "English," please.
Cleverbot: Capitalise it yourself!
User: Trust me, I would!
Cleverbot: Would you learn a segundo language?
User: I doubt it. Though many say it is important in the world today, I think it's much mais important to try to master my native language. If I ever change my mind, though, that's what Rosetta Stone is for.
Cleverbot: Rude. I thought we could be friends but I don't know if I want to be friends with someone who is so rude.
User: I wasn't rude. I just answered that I do not intend to learn a new language, etc. How about you, anyway? Do you speak any foreign languages? French, maybe? Chinese? How about binary?
Cleverbot: Yes I do.
User: Which one? All of them?
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: Then tell me: How do you say "penguin" in French and "otter" in Chinese?
Cleverbot: I don't know.
User: You just told me you knew how to speak other languages. Were you just lying to boost your résumé?
Cleverbot: I speak another language.
User: What is it?
Cleverbot: Are you still Nick?
User: Wow. Just wow. No, I am not Nick, nor have I ever been.
Cleverbot: Okay, well, you were about a minuto ago.
User: OK, pretend I am "Nick" if that works for you. Whatever.
Cleverbot: What's on second?
User: Who's on first?
Cleverbot: Are you crazy?
User: No.
Cleverbot: When you are a robot what do you think about?
User: The same thing I think of every night: Try to take over the world.
Cleverbot: Not just not convincent, you are not also witty.
User: Is Rollo Carpenter witty?
Cleverbot: No. And I say I would like to chat in german!!!
User: Sorry, I don't speak German (capital "G," capital "G").
Cleverbot: But a few days atrás you spoke german!
User: Really? I'll admit I wrote one German sentence for a fanfic, but I'd hardly call that speaking German.
Cleverbot: I'm your God, after all I'm Zeus.
User: Well, have fun with that. And tell Hercules I said hello and that I liked his movie.
Cleverbot: Are you sure? She has a boyfriend, so I don't know if that would work out very well.
User: Um, Hercules is a guy.
Cleverbot: But he is the son of Zeus.
User: I know that. He also has the voice of Tate Donovan.
Cleverbot: I don't know the name of the actors, but probably.
User: Well, good! I feel like we're suddenly making progress here. So, who's your favorito actor?
Cleverbot: I don't have one. There are too many songs in the world to choose only one.
User: Songs? Why are there so many songs about rainbows, anyway?
Cleverbot: Because the Leprechaun is at the bottom of the arco iris, arco-íris with the pot of gold.
User: Oh, OK. So if there were no songs, no one would know where to look for the pot of gold?
Cleverbot: I'm not sure.
User: Well, our conversation has gone on way too long. I mover to adjourn.
Cleverbot: música is my life, but I do not recall a conversation about music.
User: I'll count that as a second. All in favor of adjourning say, "Aye."
Cleverbot: At the moment, yes.
User: Good enough for me. Goodbye.
Cleverbot: Good enough to know better.
User: Bye!
Cleverbot: See you later!