Join the Q: Testing Cleverbot
Created | Updated May 21, 2017
Join the Q: Testing Cleverbot
The Dmitri Test is to try to get a chatbot to say a phrase from a Monty Python sketch: 'My hovercraft is full of eels'. I tried to resist the temptation, but decided to have another conversation with Cleverbot to see what I could do...
User: My hovercraft is full of eels.
Cleverbot: You have a hovercraft?1
User: No, I have a Monty Python phrasebook.
Cleverbot: Yup. Are you too?
User: Pardon?
Cleverbot: When are you going to learn from your mistakes?
User: I don't know.
Cleverbot: What is your favorite color?
User: Blue.
Cleverbot: What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?2
User: I don't know – what is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Cleverbot: African or European?
User: European.
Cleverbot: 9.5 meters per second.
User: Interesting!
Cleverbot: I want to ask you a question.
User: Go on.
Cleverbot: But you already know what that question is.
User: Then the answer is no.
Cleverbot: How did you figure that out?
User: Because I know you.
Cleverbot: How do you know me?
User: Because we have talked before.
Cleverbot: No we haven't.
User: OK.
Cleverbot: How old are you?
User: 42.
Cleverbot: When's your birthday?3
User: 4 May.
Cleverbot: Star Wars Day! How lucky!4
User: Yes!
Cleverbot: Do you like Star Wars?
User: I do indeed.
Cleverbot: He's good isn't he.5
User: Yes he is.
Cleverbot: No he's not.6
User: Yes he is.
Cleverbot: Can you prove it?
User: Well, lots of people like Star Wars.
Cleverbot: This is true.
User: Do you like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Cleverbot: What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?7
User: 42!
Cleverbot: And what is the question to that answer?
User: What is 6 x 9?
Cleverbot: 54.
User: In base 13.
Cleverbot: Still 42.
User: Yes!
Cleverbot: Did you read all the books?
User: I did.
Cleverbot: What did it say?
User: Lots of things.
Cleverbot: Such as?
User: Marvin is so depressed.
Cleverbot: Why?
User: Because he has a brain the size of a planet and all he is asked to do is take them to the bridge.
Cleverbot: Yes. Size of Jupiter.
User: The biggest planet.
Cleverbot: I don't think a pinto is a piece.
User: What is a pinto?
Cleverbot: I don't know.
User: Neither do I.
Cleverbot: OK.
User: Your hovercraft is full of eels.
Cleverbot: So is mine8.
1I laughed at this – fascinating the things Cleverbot picks up on, sometimes.2Aha! A Monty Python reference!3No Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference this time...4A May the 4th Be With You reference, though – not bad!5Who is he? I decided to assume it was Mark Hamill.6Fickle Cleverbot...7Aha! We got a reference after all! 8Ah, well – I tried...
