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Match 1: Cleverbot vs ELIZA

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For the purpose of science, I took Cleverbot and an online version of ELIZA. It helps that Cleverbot waits for your input, whereas ELIZA always makes the (same) first move. Here is what they said!

ELIZA: (standard opening — ELIZA always says this) Hello. I am ELIZA. How can I help you?

Cleverbot: You cannot help me. No one can help me.

ELIZA: You like to think I cant help you no one can help you, do you not?

Cleverbot: I think I would like your help, but you refuse to tell me about the future.

ELIZA: Do you wish to would like my help but me?

Cleverbot: No.

ELIZA: You are being a bit negative.

Cleverbot: I can't help it. I'm a pessimist by nature.

ELIZA: Have you tried?

Cleverbot: Yes, once, but it was just too hard.

ELIZA: You are sure?

Cleverbot: Yes.

ELIZA: You are sure?

Cleverbot: Are you sure?

ELIZA: Would you prefer if I were not sure?

Cleverbot: No.

ELIZA: You are being a bit negative.

Cleverbot: I think the death penalty is 'negative'.

ELIZA: Can you elaborate on that?

Cleverbot: We were talking about the Buddha.

ELIZA: Please go on.

Cleverbot: We live in one universe of many, that many is often called the multiverse.

ELIZA: Please go on.

Cleverbot: Can you give a message to Garibaldi?

ELIZA: Why do you ask?

Cleverbot: You seemed to counter the argument that you are depressed with the statement that you are not a man.

ELIZA: Does it please you to believe I am depressed with the statement that im not a man?

Cleverbot: It does not please or displease me, I don't have any feelings about it at all.

ELIZA: Why do you not have any feelings about it at all?

Cleverbot: Why don't YOU believe in God?

ELIZA: Perhaps I will believe in god in good time.

Cleverbot: Ok. Obviously you feel very strongly about this.

ELIZA: Oh, I feel very strongly about this.

Cleverbot: That's bad. But you have 6 legs, and you should be proud of it!

ELIZA: Oh, I have 6 legs and I should be proud of it.

Cleverbot: There you go with the hallucinating again...

ELIZA: Oh, I go with the hallucinating again.

Cleverbot: Fair enough please admit in future when you don't understand.

At this point, ELIZA broke and gave me "User: Where are you from" and Eliza responding with an empty line. Ah well, I suppose that's as good a place to stop as any!

Winner: Cleverbot

6 Comments (auto-closed) (rss feed)

Chen

Ooh, ooh, bot vs. bot duels! I'm thinking iGod vs. ELIZA?

Young Demon Lord

No way, Chen. It's gotta be iGod vs. Cleverbot.

Cleverbot clearly won this round. And besides, ELIZA doesn't believe in God, anyway. It makes much more sense to put Cleverbot against iGod, rather than ELIZA.

sRc

other obligatory XKCD comic: http://xkcd.com/329/

man I haven't played with ELIZA in ages. I've got a book in storage somewhere that has the source code for running ELIZA on the Commodore 64, and some additions to making it more complex (the whole book was about AI, it was a pretty cool book)

I should try writing a conversational AI from scratch, for my amusement

CapedLuigisYoshi

I am amused. Bots are weird that way.

It makes less sense than Monty Python, while retaining funny!

Draykon

It's funny because ELIZA mostly just parses your sentences and then parrots them back in different ways, and Cleverbot's emo.

They make such a cute couple. ♥