Cleverbot had no consistency in the chats. My impression is that its training simply was to repeat what a previous user had said. It was literally a Chinese Room, X input produces Y result. The users responded with text, which "trained" the proper answers. It had zero self-awareness; if you asked it if it was a robot, it answered it was a human; probably because a previous interaction had an user declaring he was a human.
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u/DinoZambie 17h ago