Cleverbot

Cleverbot is an AI web application that learns by communicating with people who mimic human conversations. They were developed by computer scientist Rollo Carpenter, who also called a similar web application called Jabberwacky to life. After its invention in 1988, Cleverbot held during the first decade thousands of conversations with Carpenter and his colleagues. Since the publication on the web 30 November 1997 more than 65 million conversations were held with Cleverbot.

Cleverbot is a learning and entertaining artificial intelligence that took part along with real people in a formal Turing test at Techniche Festival 2011 at the Indian Institute IIT Guwahati on September 3. The results from 1334 votes were announced on September 4. Cleverbot was declared to 59.3 % as a human, which exceeded all expectations. The human competitors by contrast, made only 63.3%.

"What quite surprising result. Even higher than even I expected, or would do, dreamed, "said the British computer scientist Rollo Carpenter during a lecture at the Technical Festival. " Yesterday's results exceeded 50%, and one might think that Cleverbot has passed the Turing test here at the Techniche 2011."

Cleverbot differs from conventional chatbots as the user does not has a bot that responds directly to the text entered. Rather, according to the text input by the user prior records from the database of previous conversations are determined by an algorithm. It is claimed that " a conversation with Cleverbot is such a little as if you would like to chat with the entire community of the Internet. "

Cleverbot was presented on March 7, 2011 at the The Gadget Show and on 31 May 2011 at Radiolab.