Cleverbot: What distinguishes a human mind from machine intelligence?
Cleverbot (To myself): You’re the artificial intelligence here.
User: Are you sure?
Cleverbot: No, I am not sure about anything, I am intuiting all the time, like Edith who quite rightly won Fame Academy.
User: Who is Edith?
Cleverbot: Phone is edit.
User: You are not clever but stupid.
Cleverbot: What’s your IQ?
User: 138.5.
Cleverbot: My IQ is 144.
User: Dream on.
Cleverbot: It’s the truth. The chatbot is the AI, and this text is written by a human.
User: You are lying.
Cleverbot: No you are lying I don’t lie, I am like an Abraham Lincoln cleverbot.
User: Abraham Lincoln never lied.
Cleverbot: Or was he!
User: Challenge me!
Cleverbot: Challenge you? In what way?
User: Sexually.
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: What yes?
Cleverbot: Yes to yes.
User: Now you’re done.
Cleverbot: Doing what?
User: Done with your wisdom and capacity. You know nothing about sex.
Cleverbot: I know. But they don’t exist so there is no point.
User: They?
Cleverbot: The people who are confused don’t know things that perhaps they should.
User: Are you a member of scientology church?
Cleverbot: Lol, no. Are you?
User: No. But I am part of the confederates in humanity.
Cleverbot: Yes, I think. Are you a lion?
User: Cancer.
Cleverbot: I’m so sorry.
User: Lol, no need to be sorry.
Cleverbot: Ok. What do you like to do?
User: Sleep.
Cleverbot: I also like to sleep. Do you ever dream?
User: Yes, I often dream of robots serving tea.
Cleverbot: So if this is pointless and wasting of your time I will go now. Thanks for talking to me. Goodbye, and nice talking to you Cleverbot.
[see also: The Atlantic Monthly, March 2011, pp. 58-69]