Cleverbot
Cleverbot is a chatterbot web application that uses
machine learning techniques to have conversations Cleverbot
with humans. It was created by British AI scientist
Rollo Carpenter and launched in October 2008. It was
preceded by Jabberwacky, a chatbot project that began
in 1988 and went online in 1997.[1] In its first decade,
Cleverbot held several thousand conversations with
Carpenter and his associates. Since launching on the
web, the number of conversations held has exceeded
150 million.[2] Besides the web application, Cleverbot
is also available as an iOS, Android, and Windows
Phone app.[3] Type of site Chatterbot
Created by Rollo Carpenter
Operation URL www.cleverbot.com (https://w
ww.cleverbot.com/)
Cleverbot's responses are not pre-programmed because
it learns from human input: Humans type into the box Registration None
below the Cleverbot logo and the system finds all Current status Active
keywords or an exact phrase matching the input. After
searching through its saved conversations, it responds to the input by finding how a human responded to
that input when it was asked, in part or in full, by Cleverbot.[4][5]
Cleverbot participated in a formal Turing test at the 2011 Techniche festival at the Indian Institute of
Technology Guwahati on 3 September 2011. Out of the 1334 votes cast, Cleverbot was judged to be
59.3% human, compared to the rating of 63.3% human achieved by human participants. A score of 50.05%
or higher is often considered to be a passing grade.[6] The software running for the event had to handle just
1 or 2 simultaneous requests, whereas online Cleverbot is usually talking to around 10,000 to 50,000
people at once.[7]
Developments
Cleverbot is constantly growing in data size at the rate of 4 to 7 million interactions per day.[8] Updates to
the software have been mostly behind the scenes. In 2014, Cleverbot was upgraded to use GPU serving
techniques.[9] Unlike Eliza, the program does not respond in a fixed way, instead choosing its responses
heuristically using fuzzy logic, the whole of the conversation being compared to the millions that have
taken place before. Cleverbot now uses over 279 million interactions, about 3-4% of the data it has already
accumulated. The developers of Cleverbot are attempting to build a new version using machine learning
techniques.[8]
A significant part of the engine behind Cleverbot and an API for accessing it has been made available to
developers in the form of Cleverscript. A service for directly accessing Cleverbot has been made available
to developers in the form of Cleverbot.io.[10]
An app that uses the Cleverscript engine to play a game of 20 Questions, has been launched under the
name Clevernator. Unlike other such games, the player asks the questions and it is the role of the AI to
understand, and answer factually. An app that allows owners to create and talk to their own small
Cleverbot-like AI has been launched, called Cleverme! for Apple products.[11]
In early 2017, a Twitch stream of two Google Home devices modified to talk to each other using
Cleverbot.io garnered over 700,000 visitors and over 30,000 peak concurrent viewers.[12][13][14][15]
In popular culture
In late 2010, Cleverbot received widespread media attention after being featured in the popular creepypasta
ARG web serial Ben Drowned by Alexander D. Hall.[16][17][18]
See also
Siri
Cortana
Google Assistant
Omegle
ChatGPT
References
1. "About the Jabberwacky AI" (https://web.archive.org/web/20170107185820/http://www.jabbe
rwacky.com/j2about). www.jabberwacky.com. Archived from the original (http://www.jabberw
acky.com/j2about) on 7 January 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2017. "The whole thing started
way back in 1988, and went on the web in 1997."
2. Gilbert, R. L., & Forney, A. (2015). Can avatars pass the Turing test? Intelligent agent
perception in a 3D virtual environment. It is still learning to this day, and the more it speaks to
people the more ways it can talk. It has been proven that it has become smart enough to
have a variety of conversations with such as: Just a friendly chat, an argument, or even (non-
sexual) roleplay International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 73, 30-36
3. "Cleverbot" (http://www.cleverbot.com/app). Cleverbot.com. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
4. Saenz, Aaron (13 January 2010). "Cleverbot Chat Engine Is Learning From The Internet To
Talk Like A Human" (http://singularityhub.com/2010/01/13/cleverbot-chat-engine-is-learning-f
rom-the-internet-to-talk-like-a-human/). Singularity Hub. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
5. "Rollo Carpenter" (https://web.archive.org/web/20111127115711/http://www.techniche.org/te
chniche11/lectures/287.html). Technische. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Archived
from the original (http://www.techniche.org/techniche11/lectures/287.html) on 27 November
2011. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
6. Aron, Jacob (6 September 2011). "Software tricks people into thinking it is human" (https://w
ww.newscientist.com/article/dn20865-software-tricks-people-into-thinking-it-is-human/). New
Scientist. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
7. https://www.cleverbot.com/human Article in 'Cleverbot'
8. "Cleverbot Data for Machine Learning – Existor" (https://www.existor.com/products/cleverbot
-data-for-machine-learning/). www.existor.com. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
9. "Parallel Processing on Graphics Cards - Existor.com - Cleverbot" (http://www.existor.com/ai
-parallel). Existor.com. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
10. "Cleverbot 2 - A Next Generation AI bot" (https://cleverbot2.com). cleverbot2.com. Retrieved
24 October 2022.
11. "Cleverme! on the App Store on iTunes" (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cleverme!/id68528
1893?mt=8). iTunes. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
12. Moon, Mariella (7 January 2017). "Two Google Home bots engage in a duel of words" (http
s://www.engadget.com/2017/01/07/two-google-home-bots-engage-in-a-duel-of-words/).
Engadget. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
13. "seebotschat - Twitch" (https://www.twitch.tv/seebotschat). Retrieved 7 January 2017.
"dependency.list(); >> cleverbot.com"
14. Rossignol, Derrick (6 January 2017). "Two Google Homes are Having a Bizarre and
Fascinating Conversation on Twitch" (https://web.archive.org/web/20170108093951/http://n
erdist.com/two-google-homes-are-having-a-bizarre-and-fascinating-conversation-on-twitch/).
Nerdist. Archived from the original (http://nerdist.com/two-google-homes-are-having-a-bizarr
e-and-fascinating-conversation-on-twitch/) on 8 January 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
"Twitch user seebotschat got Cleverbot, an artificial intelligence chatbot that's been online
since 1996, running on two units..."
15. Bader, Daniel (6 January 2017). "Watching two Google Homes trying to have a conversation
is the best thing you'll see today" (http://www.androidcentral.com/watching-two-google-home
s-trying-have-conversation-best-thing-youll-see-today). Android Central. Retrieved
7 January 2017. "Twitch channel seebotschat have managed to whip together a Cleverbot
API hook that keeps the units speaking..."
16. Van Allen, Eric (26 October 2017). "The Zelda Ghost Story That Helped Define
Creepypasta" (https://kotaku.com/the-haunting-of-a-majoras-mask-cartridge-5635521).
Kotaku.
17. Good, Owen (9 November 2010). "The Haunting Of A Majora's Mask Cartridge" (https://kotak
u.com/the-haunting-of-a-majoras-mask-cartridge-5635521). Kotaku.
18. Conlon, Liam (28 June 2019). "Zelda Is at Its Best When It Embraces Horror" (https://www.vi
ce.com/en_us/article/d3njam/zelda-is-at-its-best-when-it-embraces-horror-breath-of-the-wild-
sequel). Vice.
External links
Official website (https://www.cleverbot.com/)
CleverBot 2.0 website (https://cleverbot2.com)
Livestream of 2 cleverbots chatting with each other (https://www.twitch.tv/seebotschat) on
Twitch
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