2011/09/4
on deepness
Cleverbot is a corpus based chatbot capable of producing some natural conversations by using responses from humans.
As you can see it carries on just fine and can fool a casual observer. But the longer you carry on a conversation with it the more apparent that Cleverbot is frustrating to talk to, not so much that it isn’t human — after all, all of the responses are taken from human sources. If it weren’t so good at emulating a human from which you expected more, you wouldn’t be frustrated.
Cleverbot is frustrating in two ways:
- it isn’t interesting
- it doesn’t make sense
In other words, it lacks deepness, like a shallow human. Why?
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