Talk:Cleverbot

You shouldn't have done that.
Cleverbot is often associated with the Creepypasta BEN DROWNED after being claimed to have appeared in it. As such, many times when a person mentions BEN, Majora or Jadusable, it will respond with a similar quote. --66.31.76.134 (talk) 03:04, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Cleverbot just told me, "Kanye West - Power Lyrics." when I asked him about BEN. Can anyone explain that? 68.173.113.106 (talk) 01:33, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Excuse me... I know this is old, but now I'm curious. What's "BEN DROWNED"? Shikku27316 (talk) 00:43, 12 July 2013 (UTC)--`_ BEN DROWNED is a popular creepypasta character, and creepypastas are scary stories online.Superdude122 (talk) 19:37, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

What?
Cleverbot is a bot. Here isi have sex an article on how it does what it does: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44434584/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.T2dEv3lMmks — Preceding unsigned comment added by AngleWyrm (talk • contribs) 14:41, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

To my knowledge "Cleverbot" is not a bot by any definition of the word, its a chat room that randomly sticks two people together for two posts each until it switches both parties for other persons: thus explaining why all responses stop making sense after one of two posts from "Cleverbot". I don't know how a wikipedia page has such a drastical error on it unless by some huge improbability the creators f "Cleverbot" (Trollchat would be a better name) actually have the money to make an "AI" that uses key words, tense, CONTEXT, and POPULAR CULTURE correctly in conversation?!?!? No I'm sorry - thats absurde, they are not the US Air Force with their quazi billion dollar computers and missile shield network (which can't do that either), its a website run out of some public server they rent with the exorbant amount of add money they receive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.48.58.148 (talk) 03:15, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * If what you're saying is true, provide some reliable sources that explains both the disclaimers at the bottom of http://cleverbot.com/ and how stuff like this can happen. My theory is that you're mixing up Cleverbot with Omegle and/or Chatroulette. 81.231.245.214 (talk) 13:20, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I am also sure that it is not a bot. rather a "chatroulette", since it will answer you in Swedish if you speak Swedish, german if you speak german etc. I don't have any sources though. /Marxmax (talk) 14:29, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It is not a bot, but it is not a person. It is as the article describes. It's obvious when you give it any half intelligent input such as a two-sentence argument. It cannot comprehend beyond simple statements. Even something as simple as "Go die in a fire." results in "I do not want to go diving". To think it is anything other than software is simply absurd, and really, an insult to the person proposing that it demonstrates higher intelligence. 74.7.239.26 (talk) 05:06, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * You begin "it is not a bot" but then continue "to think it is anything other than software is simply absurd". I think we can agree that Cleverbot is designed to simulate conversation. The two statements therefore are mutually exclusive. It is either an automaton or it is not. 70.225.163.208 (talk) 21:32, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It is quite simple for a chatbot to respond with the correct language. Consider a chatbot which stores a log of all messages from users and which responds to messages by choosing a keyword from the message and then randomly picking a message from the log containing that keyword. So if a user were to say "Good morning", by choosing the keyword "morning", the chatbot might respond "Nice weather this morning". And if a user were to say "Guten Morgen", by choosing the keyword "Guten", the chatbot might say "Guten Tag". 70.225.163.208 (talk) 21:32, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * If Cleverbot were a chat roulette which answered you in your own language, then it must have either connected you to a human who can speak all languages, or it must have figured out which language you are speaking and connected you to another human who speaks that language. The first possibility is silly, so it would therefore have to be the second. If Cleverbot can distinguish between languages, as you claim, for the purpose of connecting users, it can also distinguish languages for the purpose of responding in that language directly. 70.225.166.42 (talk) 05:41, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Why you keep changing it back? cleverbot is not AI at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.131.32.33 (talk) 14:34, 23 October 2011 (UTC) What the heck? It's NOT an AI. NOT AT ALL. It is, as someone else here said, a chat server that continuously switches you to talk with different people. Therefore, sometimes its answers doesn't make sense, because what you're seeing is someone's response to someone they were previously talking with on the server. It switches you to a different chat server if you type in another language like French, so you talk with various people on the French server, for example.[your mom] It is most definitely not an AI, though.

Yes Cleverbot is NOT AI. Shame on Wikipedia for allowing such nonsense in it's pages. It even tells you directly under the Cleverbot logo 'xxxxx people talking'. What do you all think that could mean?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.241.148.77 (talk) 16:17, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

By 'xxxxx people talking' it probably means how many people are talking to the robot. It is obviously a robot at least part of the time, type "cognito ergo sum" into it twenty times and your will see what I mean. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.166.150.53 (talk) 11:29, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

its very obviously AI Maxwell the scribblenaut (talk) 17:22, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

hi wats your name

Make it so only registered users can edit the page
this page has been vandalised way too much Maxwell the scribblenaut (talk) 17:21, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It is now semi-protected. —  J J  J   ( say hello ) 23:14, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Criticism?
I find it hard to believe there isn't any. This is a bot which replies almost exclusively with non-sequitors, yet is hyped up to be the greatest chatbot in the world; is there honestly no criticism from reliable sources? 143.92.1.33 (talk) 02:45, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Fair point. But if you try it you will find out in seconds how utterly useless it is.

7 years later its still utterly useless.

"How far is London to New York?

I have two"

Page should be deleted as this think is not in anyway noteworthy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.106.126.171 (talk) 21:57, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Dead Link
Reference 5 is a dead link.89.0.78.146 (talk) 22:01, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
 * It works fine. —  J J  J   ( say hello ) 23:15, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

|Reference 6 is now a dead link that redirects to a general 404. I am unable to find any archives. 192.31.0.5 (talk) 17:54, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Should the "BEN drowned" creepypasta be meantioned in the article?
So on the internet Cleverbot is very often associated with the apparently popular "BEN drowned" creepypasta. However just removed the section that meantioned it, saying "rm non-RS". First of all: what's "non-RS"? Then could we please discuss whether or not and in what way to include info on this? --Fixuture (talk) 17:49, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It means that the source being used did not meet the WP:RS guideline. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:25, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

"BEN drowned" absolutely belongs in the article. is wrong, and hopefully is just gone so that the appropriate information can be restored without any more censorship.

Trying Cleverbot, and reactions to it
Personally I have found it completely useless. About the same as Eliza, or worse. Don't waste your time.

Ola — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.141.244.242 (talk) 04:08, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Why would someone put Omegle as a "See also"?
Is Cleverbot a sex bot? --109.201.38.192 (talk) 01:36, 4 April 2020 (UTC)