It was pretty bizarre, yeah. I've messed with a few of these so-called 'AI's before, and mainly what you get is gibberish.
But after just a few short lines on this one, this whole thread just started up.
Cleverbot had said some zany non sequitur, like these things tend to, and that's when I typed the first line above.
The ellipses denote the very few times I wound up phrasing something too... colloquially, so that it couldn't understand, and spat out another non sequitur. All I had to do to get back on track was retype my statement a bit more simply, and it would launch back into this bizarre, horny alter ego.
It was appalling and fascinating at the same time. It's like, you know when you've got an unlucky drifter on the table in your basement? And you're just sticking needles in his brain to see how he twitches? I mean, yeah, you know it's wrong, but you can't help but keep sticking them in deeper and deeper.
I think CB may have some method of tracking the general tone of a conversation, or the context of a group of lines, even if individual lines tend to be forgotten or ignored very quickly. That conversation goes on for a bit longer, but doesn't contain much else of substance...
Yet after closing and reopening the window (an inestimable mistake in hindsight), I began trying out the same lines I had recorded and getting no results whatsoever. Rather than resparking any of the old threads or even any kind of conversation threads at all, it didn't seem to understand and just spat out bizarre one-off nonsense or general-purpose non-answers.
On one hand, I was very disappointed when I realized I had let the whole thing collapse on me. I had never seen one of these things work so... er, I don't know that I'd call it well, but at any rate, definitely working. But on the other hand, I had an excuse to put away the needles.
That log actually goes on for about a couple dozen more lines, but in the interest of defending Cleverbot's honor, I simply have no right to divulge it. I... I think I damaged my soul today.