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Who is President of the United States?
Not me.
Why not?
Because I am stupid.
Originally posted by chiron613
No, it's not really AI. It's a take-off on the Eliza program, which simulates the responses of a "Rogerian" therapist. Eliza has got to be 15 or 20 years old at least. It followed a simple plot of trying to reflect back to the user words it perceived as "trigger" words. Like,
"My mother said I had to come here"
"How do you feel about your mother?"
That sort of thing.
This cleverbot no doubt has a much more complicated algorithm, plus a larger database of information to draw from. I'm not convinced that this alone indicates "intelligence".
What I really think is that the cleverbot illustrates how much of our interactions are more or less reflexive, not actually intelligent conversation but social discourse. We're not so much exchanging information as simply offering "strokes", acts of support, recognition, etc. "How are you?" is more of a greeting than an inquiry into your health. A good bit of what we say and do is just social behavior.
Cleverbot doesn't pass the Turing test. When I asked it "Who are you?" it responded, "I like pie." That is not what an ordinary human would say.
Who is President of the United States?
Not me.
Why not?
Because I am stupid.
At least it's got a sense of humor...