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Cleverbot (2008)

4 points| 1bpp | 29 days ago |cleverbot.com

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lneiman|29 days ago

What exactly is this?

vunderba|28 days ago

It was more an experiment in psychology than a real AI.

It recorded every input/output pair from users over time and eventually reached the point where, instead of generating a random response, it would simply search for the most similar A→B pair and return that output to the user, creating the illusion of intelligence.

If you’re familiar with the magician Derren Brown, there’s a good comparison: when he appeared to play competitively against nine very strong English chess players simultaneously. It’s like that.

https://en.chessbase.com/post/derren-brown-s-che-trick-once-...